I need some statistics on Global warming to make a chart or graph.?

Question

I am not sure what I should make a graph or table on due to global warming. I am having trouble finding any credible sites or information. can you help?

Answer 1

There is currently no evidence that man has made any significant contribution to climate change.

Some interesting facts.

1. During most of the past 2,000 years, the temp has been about the same or higher. Currently, we are barely over the average for the last 2,000 years.

http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index....

2. During the medieval warm period (820 – 1040 AD), Greenland supported farming. Those areas previously farmed are now covered in glaciers. Obviously the melting and reformation of glaciers is a cyclical occurrence.

3. The earth experienced a little ice age which ended around the late 1860's or so. This is about the time man started recording temperatures. This would be like measuring a lake depth after a severe drought, then worrying about it flooding as it rose to normal levels.

4. The earth has been warming for the last 18,000 years, since the last major glacier time period. During this time frame, the glaciers have been melting at a fairly consistent rate. Also, for most of the last 1 billion years, the earth had NO glaciers or ice coverage.

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/i...

5. The AGW theory states that CO2 is the primary driver of temperature. They arrived at this idea because they did not know of anything else which could cause it. But during the 70's and during the current decade, temperatures dropped while CO2 continued to rise. This means that natural occurrences are driving temp, not CO2.

6. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation and sun spots provides a much better correlation to earths' temperature than CO2 levels ever have.

http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/200...

http://motls.blogspot.com/2004/09/sunspo...

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/sppi_r...

7. Polar Bears are experiencing a population boom. Coke sales in the arctics are through the roof. Polar Bears have been around for thousands of years, and remember, we are only at the average for the last 2,000 years. They lived through all the previously warmer climates.

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/...

8. Many glaciers are expanding. Even Antarctica is growing on 98% of is land mass. Only 2% is melting.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1...

9. There is no consensus on AGW. This was a lie that has been propagated by the media.

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckt...

10. Yes we emit CO2 into the atmosphere and it is a greenhouse gas, but, we only contribute about .28% of all the greenhouse effect. Water vapor makes up about 95% of the greenhouse effect. CO2 and other trace gases round out the greenhouse gases at about 5% for all of them. Of that 5%, only 3% is CO2, and most of that is natural. Again, our contribution to the greenhouse effect is a paltry .28%

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenh...

11. The spread of disease is not attributed mainly to temperature. If this were the case, Florida would be a giant festering disease ridden cesspool. Economic standing is the primary determining factor in the spread of disease. Poor cultures can not fight the disease or eradicate the pests like more successful nations.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12077886...

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.h...

12. Natural climate disasters (hurricanes, cyclones, etc) have never been scientifically linked to global warming (whether natural or man made).

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppa...

http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?i...

In fact, we have less hurricanes hitting the USA than earlier in the century.

http://www.junkscience.com/Hurricanes/de...

And cyclones are less frequent than in the past.

http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/de...

Answer 2

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2007/

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwar...

Answer 3

Beren nailed it.  Look at his links and read them.  Here is a link to land ocean surface temperature change data averaged annually for all stations on the planet.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs...

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs...

I was at NASA's GISS site, but NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has lots too.  Read the papers and click on the graphics and links to get data.

Don't make up data.  Plot it and see what it tells you.  That is how science is done.

Answer 4

You'll probably want CO2 over time to add to the other data people have directed you to.

This is from Mauna Loa, monthly CO2 concentration since 1958

http://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/data/in_situ_...

See if you can make it match temperature change over the same period... I can't

Answer 5

China & India will build a new coal-fired power plant once a week for the next 20 years.

Answer 6

When your doing it be sure to include the period on earth when forests grew at the north pole and with not one motor car in sight. Natural cycles exist everywhere in life.

Alternatively just do what previous answer says...."make it up"   be carefull not to show anything that bucks the trend as you will be abused. Just smile as you hand over your freedoms and taxes to your government.

Answer 7

http://www.globalwarmingisreal.com

Answer 8

Just make it up like everyone else.