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adarix asked in EnvironmentGlobal Warming · 1 decade ago

So where exactly can I find the data that supports climate change?

Not a list of scientists who say they have the data.

Not a chart of someone's interpretation of the data.

But the actual data.

For example, where can I find all the temperature measurements for July 9, 1935 and July 9, 1985, so I can compare them?

Update:

Edit:

What I'm looking for here are actual measurement numbers.

Not summations or compilations.

For example (again) all the measurements that went into the July 9, 1935 global temperature.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    If you just want global temperature data, you can find it here:

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

    Or here:

    http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/climate-monitoring/index....

    If you want a summary of the evidence supporting the man-made global warming theory, I recommend here:

    http://greenhome.huddler.com/wiki/global-warming-a...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Climate changes on several cycles the shortest being the 11 year one of the primary sun spot cycle. There are also documented 200 year climate cycles, the last up tick one ended about 8 years ago and we are currently on the back side or down side of 4 major cycles that all peaked between 1996 and 2005. There is also a less well understood 1000 year cycle that might also help explain things. The 11 year and 200 year ones are the best documented though of them all.

    http://www.warwickhughes.com/agri/Solar_Arch_NY_Ma...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    http://www.climatechangefacts.info/

    Looking up both ways to get to the truth. And looks like "global warming is a fact" is winning by a LONG shot.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    That's because there is no proof that MGW is a crisis... The alarmists have correlations and computer models. Correlation is not proof, and the computer models don't agree within a factor of 10.

    Climate scientists on both sides agree they don't know what the sensitivity of the atmosphere is, and if all you have to support your "argument" are non-proof and an error factor of 10, most folks would say the "science is NOT settled."

    "... climate physicist Reto Knutti says "There is a true climate sensitivity. We just don't know its true value."

    http://www.nature.com/climate/2009/0905/full/clima...

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  • 1 decade ago

    For station data used in the NASA/GISS temperature dataset:

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

    For documentation on how the raw data is processed:

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

  • 1 decade ago

    I think you've already been given links to the single datums you are looking for. But if you really want to know, the entire "Physical Science Basis" for the IPCC conclusions are online. It's over 1000 pages, but each chapter has it's own References of 100s of studies that were reviewed. If you really want to judge their competency you could start reviewing every piece of research that they looked.

    (Policy makers generally look at the depth and the number of credible people internationally behind the report and accept it. There is just too much there for a single person to read. But it is still worth perusing if you are really interested.)

  • 1 decade ago

    the news at most

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    http://www.ipcc.ch/

    Or try contacting specialist centres and universities such as the Met Office and UEA in the UK.

    Oh, and prepare to dedicate several years' worth of study.

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