{"id":11219,"date":"2017-05-26T00:12:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T04:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11219"},"modified":"2017-05-26T00:12:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T04:12:49","slug":"global-temperature-patterns-over-the-last-two-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/05\/global-temperature-patterns-over-the-last-two-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"Global temperature patterns over the last two decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new article in the journal <em>Nature<\/em>, &#8220;Satellite temperature measurements do not support the recent claim of a \u201cleveling off of warming\u201d over the past two decades.&#8221; Previous claims by those skeptical of the recent trends towards increasing temperature at the surface of the earth (including Scott Pruitt \u2013 the new Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) often used the argument that satellite temperature measurements did not show the warming trend and therefore the surface temperature trends must be wrong due to contamination of records by urban &#8220;heat island&#8221; effects or manipulations of the data. \u00a0The idea that there has been a pause in warming trends since the mid 1990&#8217;s is sometimes used as an argument that global warming is not correct, but this &#8220;pause&#8221; has been debunked in surface measurements, and now it has also been shown to be incorrect in satellite temperature measurements. \u00a0You can read more about it at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-017-02520-7\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-017-02520-7<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/satellite-temp-trend.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11220\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/satellite-temp-trend-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/satellite-temp-trend-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/satellite-temp-trend-98x138.jpg 98w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/satellite-temp-trend.jpg 484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new article in the journal Nature, &#8220;Satellite temperature measurements do not support the recent claim of a \u201cleveling off of warming\u201d over the past two decades.&#8221; Previous claims by those skeptical of the recent trends towards increasing temperature at the surface of the earth (including Scott Pruitt \u2013 the new Administrator of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":11220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11221,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11219\/revisions\/11221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}