Where can I find statistics about global warming?

Question

I am trying to do a math project for tuesday about global warming and I need as many statistics and numerical data as possible. I've searched everywhere and have found nothing but graphs. I need raw data containing numbers. Please help

Answer 1

Hi Brandon,



There’s a vast amount of data out there, what specifically were you looking for? Some commonly referenced datasets include…



• Historical temperatures (satellite, instrumental and reconstructed), projected temperature changes in the future



• Changes in the cryosphere such as the Arctic, Antarctic, mountains, glaciers etc. Ice mass changes, extent, area, volume, density, thickness.



• Meteorological data including rainfall, snowfall, storm data, wind data etc.



• You can get data specific to a town, region or state, country of the whole world.



Also, what formats are you looking for. A lot of the data is in Net CDF format, if you’re wanting the large datasets having a CDF enabled computer will help. Basic datasets are normally available as text files (comma delimited) and sometimes as spreadsheets.



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The NOAA is a good starting point (see links below)



Here’s s a handy site with several datasets to play with. Choose where, when and what then plot the graph. The data are available to download as JSON, XML or CSV or copy and paste into Excel, Word or similar.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/



More NOAA datasets are here:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datasets



The National Climatic Date Center is here:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access



And the Global Historical Climate Network datasets are here:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ghcnm/



Lots of data here, mostly in CDF and ASCII (plain text) formats:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/index.html



NASA has plenty of temp data to play with:

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/



Here’s data about the cryosphere:

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/



The World Bank has a knowledge portal and data archive:

http://sdwebx.worldbank.org/climateportal/index.cfm



If there’s anything specific you’re after then please add details.

Answer 2

Links to data are here too



http://climate.nasa.gov/key_indicators#co2



there is a brown "download data button at the top right of each graph. This links to other sites that have the data. It is a hunt to find all the data though. When things are changed, the links may not be updated. But most have multiple sites fo maybe some will sork.

Answer 3

n 2012, the Earth’s surface temperature was around 0.58 Celsius degrees warmer than the 20th century average. The global anomaly in surface temperature might be the cause of an increase in sea level, a decrease in arctic ice and the growing number of weather-related catastrophes, including storms, floods and droughts. The economic loss due to the 2012 drought in the United States reached around 20 billion U.S. dollars, making it the country’s most costly drought in history.





In November 2013, Warsaw hosted the 19th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations' Framework Conference on Climate Change. The objective of the annual conference is to tackle climate change, stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, and to reach a post-Kyoto Protocol agreement. The Kyoto Protocol was initially adopted in 1997, when global energy-related CO2 emissions stood at around 24.4 billion metric tons. In 2012, this figure was significantly higher: about 34.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide was emitted worldwide. China is currently the largest producer of CO2 emissions. In order to reduce the production of carbon dioxide, several countries have started issuing tradable green certificates. In 2012, the global carbon market is projected to reach a value of around 85 billion U.S. dollars. The increase in energy generation from renewable energy sources is seen as another way to cut down on carbon dioxide emissions.

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Answer 4

The average temperature of the troposphere is calculated every month using satellites. The data is compiled at the University of Alabama, Huntsville under contract to NASA and is publically available - every month and by sections of the globe. The data is expressed as anomaly from the previous average in Celsius.



http://www.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2lt/uahncdc_lt_5.6.txt

Answer 5

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/data-sources/ is one place, bringing you to here:

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/data-sources/#Climate_data_raw



There is far too much raw data for you to deal with by Tuesday. What sort of data do you want, and for what specific purpose(s)? You might look at the change in the number of local high temperature records by year vs. the local low temp records, for example. If they are in balance, so is the climate. If they are out of balance, say one is twice as big as the other, then you certainly seem to have demonstrated that the climate is out of balance, if the trend is significant. Just doing that might be a very good project.

Answer 6

LOL! That's what climate science has been trying to do for years. They've been trying to connect the dots to show catastrophic warming from increased CO2 concentration levels, but they are still trying to find out why temperatures have stabilized for the past 17 years while CO2 levels continue to climb.



Jim Z has a good link and here's another one with over 100 data sets : http://www.c3headlines.com/datasets-temperature-climate.html

Answer 7

Liars' Club.

Answer 8

Oh, there is this new thing maybe. Its called Google. It has a search engine which is pretty cool and thats where you can type in your question. Google can answer anything

Answer 9

I linked to this site yesterday.

http://www.climate4you.com/GlobalTemperatures.htm

It was pretty thorough and easy to read.

Answer 10

This site links to many.



https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/

Answer 11

Try CDIAC, they have lots of stats on carbon emissions.

Answer 12

average temperature