DMI Show Greenland Was Warmer in 1930’s

By Paul Homewood

A few weeks ago, I ran a post on temperature trends at Nuuk and Tasiilaq (Angmagssalik) in Greenland, which I gleaned from the GISS database. The conclusion was clear, that temperatures in recent years were no higher than the 1930’s and 40’s.

I have now managed to obtain the source data from DMI, who run the whole shebang. Their figures not only support my own study, but also extend it to the three other long running sites in Greenland, Upernavik, Narsarsuaq and Ilulissat.

DMI also provide this very handy graphic:

http://www.dmi.dk/laer-om/generelt/dmi-publikationer/2013/

Let’s home in on the individual graphs. (The top two, Pituffik and Danmarkshaven only start in 1948 and 1949 respectively, so don’t show the 1930 & 40’s peak).

Annual Mean Temperatures

Apart from the anomalously high temperatures in 2010, it is self evident that since 2000 temperatures across the board have been at a similar level to those in the 1930’s and 40’s. Not only that, since 2010 temperatures have been dropping away from those seen around a decade or so ago.

If we take Nuuk as an example, we find that 2014 only ranks as the 40th warmest year since records started in 1873, tying with 1895 and five other years. Last year was not an untypical year at Nuuk – 2011 was a lot colder, and this year is shaping up a lot colder.

Below are the years which have been warmer than 2014, or as warm, in Nuuk .

1878 1895 1916 1917 1920’s – 7 yrs 1930’s – 7 yrs 1940’s – 4 yrs 1950’s – 5 yrs 1960’s – 6 yrs

The Greenland meltdown is one of the biggest climate scams around, fed by junk science papers such as this one which “especially focuses on the last 20 years”, and can therefore claim to detect rapid warming.

The cyclical nature of the temperature history is very clearly connected to the AMO, and has nothing at all to do with CO2, but dishonest climate scientists are not paid to give that message.

SOURCE DATA

All from DMI:

http://www.dmi.dk/laer-om/generelt/dmi-publikationer/2013/