Does Record Heat in Anchorage prove/disprove AGW?

Three data points is probably not much ground to make a link but if the first gap is 1926-1992 (66 years) and the second gap is 1992-2009 (17 years) it suggests something is going on over a reasonable length of time.

And while it may be cold in the parts of the U.S. and Canada the Global temp averages (including Alaska) for 2008 tell a different story

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2008...

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It neither proves nor disproves the theory. The weather in Anchorage Alaska is just that: weather. It might be unusual, but there's no way to know whether a single weather event would have occurred with or without a warming climate.

You already know that at some point, weather and regional climate will be used cumulatively to represent a global means. The funny thing about weather reports they don't emphasize CO2 levels. They could if it was pertinent, but in d-d weather the extreme variability would make it pointless. So the answer is (no)... "It's a rather strange feeling telling someone, what they already knew."

http://www.alaskascienceoutreach.com/index.php/sci...

http://www.arh.noaa.gov/rnotes/RN-05-0002.pdf

It neither proves or disproves it. Temperatures fluctuate naturally depending on cloud cover weather systems etc.

I don't believe we have seen any major global warming yet. In fact for the last 6 years the global averages have not risen.

The earth's climate fluctuates dramatically. There has been a steady cycle of "ice ages". According to some scientists we are due for another little ice age. the last one occured only a short period ago. It was preceded directly by a period of global warming known as the Medieval warm period.

I'm not going to discredit man made global warming completely, but I believe if it is occurring at all it is on a much smaller scale than the liberal elite would have us believe.

It's not enough evidence to either prove or disprove global warming. I'm sure either side could use it as ammo though.

I had a friend north of there that had been complaining about all the sub zero weather. Then a front came through with 105 mile an hour gusts and like a Santa Ana wind compressed down and that is where the high temperatures came from. It is more the fact that the temperature has not risen in the last ten years as CO2 rose that proves that CO2 isn't the main driving force of climate. The theory has yet to be validated by actual data like warmer air in the troposphere. The actual warming is apparently not significant nor does it require the socialists to take over the economy.

Good one, Dana. The article also says "but he says a cool change is expected for the weekend." in Australia. Which very well could bring it to average or below. So January could very well NOT be the hottest to date.

Anchorage has a very good, long and accessible temperature record, from 1916 to date.

It’s here

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/gistemp_...

It looks like things are neither unusually warm nor getting warmer according to GISS.

Except that there are record or near-record lows in most of the continental US, and it's been cool in the continental US for months - thus, Alaska would be the exception, not the rule.

The problem is, you're likening two arguments that are not the same. You're comparing a few data points in select locations to dozens of locations over several months.

http://www.iceagenow.com/Record_Lows_2008.htm

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080313_...