This paper by Dr Robert Balling Jr and myself examines a series of rural and small town South African temperature data and compared 30 year trends with available Jones 1994 grid box trends.
We found clear evidence that warming trends were much higher in the Jones data which of course includes many large urban centres. The trend of our 19 station series from non-urban sites is shown red in this extract from our Fig 2.
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Monthly Archives: August 2007
Great Barrier Reef bleaching due to COLD
News.com.au reports:
- Cold snap bleaches pristine section of reef
- Experts blame cold water, wind and air
- Climate change could make extremes ‘more common’
Note we are talking about the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) of coral, offshore the state of Queensland in north east Australia.
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