Without wanting to drag the deeply unappealing climate forum antics in here, it is remarkable how over the last 25 years the volatility in the CET has behaved rather like the global climate and ENSO.
- In the late 80s after ups and downs over a decade or so we get a jump up to a new mean state, starting in 88/89. Just like the global climate.
- in the 90s we fluctuate but generally head in an upward direction. Just like the global climate.
- Around 97/8 until 2006 we enter a new remarkable stable period of warm temperatures with very little year on year volatility. Just like the global climate.
-Since 2007 we are all over the place, cool years alternating with record warm ones, massively increased volatility (due to amplified NH jet?) and a big uptick this year. Just like the global climate.
Could the UK be the perfect bellwether for global changes? Should we replace the GISS or UAH global temp series with the CET?
Brockley, South East London 30m asl