Claim: November 2013 is the ‘warmest ever’ globally – but will the real November 2013 temperature please stand up?
'Much of the global 'record highest' claim hinges on this one point about Russia...But, according to satellite temperatures, the ranking claimed by NCDC isn’t anywhere near to “record warmest”. Dr. John Christy gives these values for the satellite data sources of global temperature and their ranks:
- UAH Nov 2013 9th warmest Nov (0.20 C cooler than warmest Nov.)
- RSS Nov 2013 16th warmest Nov (0.22 C cooler than warmest Nov.)
And, when we look at the UAH map of the world, while Russia was certainly warmer, it wasn’t as warm as NCDC makes it to be...Global temperature can be significantly different, depending on how it is calculated and presented.'
