Global Warming Visualizations

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Google Earth Climate Introductory Tour (short version)

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Global Climate Change Visualisation

This is a data visualisation showing the change in temperature across the world over the last 200+ years. It is based on the data released by the UK's Met Office in Dec 2009.

More information regarding this, along with the source code to the visualisation is available at flinklabs.com/projects/climatedata

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NASA | Taking Earth's Temperature

For more information visit http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ClimateEssen...

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5-Year Average Global Temperature Anomalies - 1880 to 2008

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Climate Change ... Global Warming ... Global Cooling

A history of climate change and the IPCC, including:

a) IPCC admits that the world is emerging from the Little Ice Age.
b) IPCC claims that recent data can be used to validate its models ... 10 years of cooling shows that the IPCC models are wrong.

c) Data is presented showing that claims of recent "unprecedented" warming are wrong.

Sources:

1. YouTube - Google Earth Climate Introductory Tour (short version)
2. Global Climate Change Visualisation on Vimeo
3. YouTube - NASA | Taking Earth's Temperature
4. Dailymotion - 5-Year Average Global Temperature Anomalies - 1880 to 2008 - a Tech & Science video
5. Climate Change ... Global Warming ... Global Cooling on Vimeo

Related:

1. Scientific Visualization Studio: Gallery of Animations
2. Flink Labs | Data Visualisation | Climate Data
3. Data Visualization Activism: Showing the Trends in Global Temperature - information aesthetics
4. #climatedata

Global Cooling

The world has seen some extraordinary winter conditions in both hemispheres over the past year: snow in Johannesburg last June and in Baghdad in January, Arctic sea ice returning with a vengeance after a record retreat last summer, paralyzing blizzards in China, and a sharp drop in the globe’s average temperature.

Skeptics on Human Climate Impact Seize on Cold Spell - New York Times

World Temperatures according to the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction. Note the steep drop over the last year.
DailyTech - Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling

Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases. The dramatic cooling seen in just 12 months time seems to bear that out. While the data doesn't itself disprove that carbon dioxide is acting to warm the planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more powerful factors are now cooling it.

A typical sunspot compared to the size of the earth. Sunspots have all but vanished in recent years.
DailyTech - Solar Activity Diminishes; Researchers Predict Another Ice Age

related:
Skeptics on Human Climate Impact Seize on Cold Spell - New York Times
DailyTech - Solar Activity Diminishes; Researchers Predict Another Ice Age
DailyTech - Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling
Ice Age