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Even by New York standards, the recent temperatures in the city have not, for the most part, been record-breakers.
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The recent temperature peak was 1998.
I do find it interesting to compare the magnitude of largest presumptively natural temperature fluctuation during the last 200 years, the 1810s negative excursion, to the recent temperature changes.
Ed Hawkins of Reading University added: "This is an interesting and important contribution to the continuing discussion about the recent temperature hiatus, but is unlikely to be the final word on the issue.
There are small, rapid variations attributable to El Niño and other ocean currents such as the Gulf Stream; because of such oscillations, the "flattening" of the recent temperature rise that some people claim is not, in our view, statistically significant.
"The recent temperature fluctuations in Japan seem to be linked to a lower male:female sex ratio of newborn infants, partly via increased male fetal deaths," the authors say in the September issue of Fertility & Sterility, a journal of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
The comparison of recent temperatures to the paleoclimate isn't exact, as it matches modern record-keeping to proxies taken from ancient layers of glacier ice, ocean sediments and rock.
Off the California coast recent temperatures have been 5 to 6°F warmer than historic averages --among the warmest conditions of any time in the past 30 years.
Even a spate of recent temperatures in the 105-degree range cannot explain the latest doings of government by crackpots.
The lead author of that paper, Kevin Cowtan said of this study, "I think Professor England has uncovered the biggest piece in the puzzle of recent temperature trends" In the figure below, the England study compares observed surface temperature changes (black and grey) with IPCC model projections (red), and projections made by models that incorporate these changes in trade winds (green and blue).
However, recent temperatures are the warmest ever observed for many ocean basins.
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