November 2016

The NASA GISS global temperature anomaly for November has been published. October's value was originally reported as 104, but has been corrected (it is normal to have small corrections on an ongoing basis) to 106. November's value, just out, is 105. This is hundreds of a degree C anomaly, the standard number used to report, off of a baseline. The baseline in the case of NASA GISS is 1951-1980, which does not represent pre-industrial levels. The huge uptick we saw during the last part of the current year is the result of global warming, which has been pushing temperatures up, and the…