Solid Answers may come soon from the Arctic
Scientists working at the McCall Glacier in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge recently pulled a 150-meter ice core. This is the longest ice core extracted from an Arctic glacier in the United States. According to the ScienceDaily article, the core spans the entire depth of the glacier (about 1.5 football fields) and could cover 200 years of climate history in the region. The scientists are hoping that the climate record will extend as far back as the Little Ice Age. The team will begin to study this ice core this fall in Alaska. Hopefully, we will get some solid information out of that by next year.
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More June Global Temperature data
By the way, I just saw the June global temperature anomaly from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies) GISS, which uses met station data. The June temperature anomaly was +.26 C or +.47 F, making the month the closest to normal since July of 2004, based on the GISS records since 1880. Also, so far this year the globe is running at +.44 C or +.79 F. The National Climatic Data Center will have more on this very soon.
I just read in his blog that Roger Pielke Sr. says that there is a significant warm bias (nighttime temperatures) that is not accounted for by the IPCC and their global temperature trend assessments. I would assume he is talking about the increase in urbanization (the heat island effect, which is most pronounced at night).
