Broken Graphs

Honey, We Broke The Global Warming Graph. Again.

gregladen | October 22, 2015

We're gonna need a bigger boat. Well, actually we're gonna need a bigger y-Axis. This has been happening for a while. NOAA has just published September's global surface temperature, which turns out to be 0.90C above their baseline (20th century average). According to NOAA, this is the highest value for September on record, 0.19C higher than last year, which was also a record. The graph above shows the year to date average, though September, for NOAA's entire data set. Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the University of Reading, recently tweeted a graph he produced to show global surface…

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