Global Warming Acceleration

Joseph Nowarski, M.Sc., ME – Energy Conservation Expert

Version 1.1.1, 25 March 2022
DOI:10.5281/zenodo.6386218

Abstract

This publication analyzes changes of global warming rates (GWR) expressed in

Centigrade per year (°C/y) and introduces a parameter “global warming
acceleration” (GWA) expressed in Centigrade per year per year (°C/y 2).
GWA may be applied for prediction of the GWR for the next decade. If the current
decrease of GWA will continue for the next 11 years, Global Warming Rate will
increase from the current +0.017 °C/y to +0.019 °C/y, for land+ocean.

Glossary

a = GWR = global warming rate, parameter “a” in linear trendline:

T(y) = (y-n) * a + b, average change of global surface temperature
per year in the trendline period, °C/y ([8] Formula 1)

Ave average

GWA Global Warming Acceleration, °C/y2 ([Centigrade per year per year]
[°C y−2])

GWR = a = Global Warming Rate – average change of global surface

temperature per year in the trendline period, °C/y

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Units

The temperature change unit is °C.

Global warming rate, average change of global surface temperature per year in
the trendline period is in °C/y.
The global warming acceleration (yearly change of the global warming rate) is in
°C/y2 [Centigrade per year per year].

Global Warming Rate

According to IPCC [9] “Since 1970 the global average temperature has been
rising at a rate of 1.7°C per century”.
According to NASA [10] “The majority of the warming has occurred since 1975, at
a rate of roughly 0.15 to 0.20°C per decade”.
According to NOAA's 2020 Annual Climate Report [11] “the combined land and
ocean temperature has increased at an average rate of 0.13 degrees Fahrenheit (
0.08 degrees Celsius) per decade since 1880; however, the average rate of
increase since 1981 (0.18°C / 0.32°F) has been more than twice that rate”.

Publication [8] includes 61 years trendlines and the average global warming rate
per year in the trendline period.

Formulas

Formula 1 - Linear trendline

T(y) = (y-n) * a + b

T(y) global surface temperature above 1850-1900 baseline in year y [°C]

n the year before the trendline start point, i.e., for trendline in period
1961-2022 n=1960

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a, b parameters related to the linear function displayed on Excel trendline

chart

Formula 2 - Global Warming Rate, GWR

GWR = a [°C/y]

Formula 3 - Global Warming Acceleration, GWA

GWA = Δa / Δy [°C/y2]

Formula 4 - Δa

Δa = a(i+1) – a(i)

a(i+1) average change of global surface temperature per year in trendline

“i+1” period = parameter “a” of trendline “i+1” (from Excel chart
formula) [°C/y]
a(i) average change of global surface temperature per year in trendline
“i” period = parameter “a” of trendline “i” (from Excel chart formula)
[°C/y]

Formula 5 - Δy

Δy = CenterTL(i+1) – CenterTL(i)

CenterTL(i+1) center of trendline “i+1” [year]

CenterTL(i) center of trendline “i” [year]

Formula 6 - CenterTL

CenterTL(i) = Average(start year of trendline TL(i), end year of of trendline TL(i))

Period Applied for Calculations of Trendlines

The period applied in [8] for calculations of trendlines is 61 years. This is also the
trendlines period applied in the current work. The starting points of the trendlines
are every 10 years from 1850 (1880 for ocean only).

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Databases Applied

 NASA [1] [2]

 NOAA [3]
 Berkeley Earth (LBL) [4] [5] [6] [7]

Global Surface Temperature Changes over Land and Ocean

Chart 1 - Trendlines, land+ocean, 1850-1900 baseline [8] [°C]

1.5

1.3

1.1

0.9

0.7

0.5

0.3

0.1

-0.1

-0.3

-0.5
1850

1860

1870

1880

1890

1900

1910

1920

1930

1940

1950

1960

1970

1980

1990

2000

2010

2020

Ave TL1 TL2 TL3 TL4

Ave average of all databases [°C]

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Table 1 - Global Warming Rate (GWR), land+ocean

Trendline Trendline period Trendline Global

i ID Center GWR Warming
from to years Acceleration
Symbol TL(i) CenterTL Δy a Δa GWA
Formula Formula 6 Formula 5 Formula 1 Formula 4 Formula 3
Units year year years year years °C/y °C/y °C/y2
1 TL1 1850 1910 61 1880 +0.000417
2 TL2 1860 1920 61 1890 10 -0.000865 -0.001282 -0.000128
3 TL3 1870 1930 61 1900 10 -0.000578 +0.000287 +0.000029
4 TL4 1880 1940 61 1910 10 +0.002629 +0.003207 +0.000321
5 TL5 1890 1950 61 1920 10 +0.006173 +0.003544 +0.000354
6 TL6 1900 1960 61 1930 10 +0.007406 +0.001233 +0.000123
7 TL7 1910 1970 61 1940 10 +0.006335 -0.001071 -0.000107
8 TL8 1920 1980 61 1950 10 +0.004676 -0.001659 -0.000166
9 TL9 1930 1990 61 1960 10 +0.005681 +0.001005 +0.000101
10 TL10 1940 2000 61 1970 10 +0.007744 +0.002063 +0.000206
11 TL11 1950 2010 61 1980 10 +0.013362 +0.005618 +0.000562
12 TL12 1961 2021 61 1991 11 +0.017436 +0.004074 +0.000370

Chart 2 - GWR – Global Warming Rate, land+ocean [°C/y]

0.020

0.015

0.010

0.005

0.000

-0.005
1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1991

Axis x is the center of the 61 years trendline period

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Chart 3 - GWA - Global Warming Acceleration, land+ocean [°C/y 2]

0.0006
0.0005
0.0004
0.0003
0.0002

0.0001
0.0000
-0.0001
-0.0002
-0.0003
1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1991

Axis x is the center of the 61 years trendline period

From 1960 the GWA is above zero, which means the Global Warming Rate (GWR)
[°C/y] is increasing. The negative slope of GWA between 1980 and 1991 means a
slower increase of GWR.

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Global Surface Temperature Changes over Land

Chart 4 - Trendlines, land only, 1850-1900 baseline [8] [°C]

2.5

2.0

1.5

1.0

0.5

0.0

-0.5

-1.0

-1.5

-2.0
1750

1760

1770

1780

1790

1800

1810

1820

1830

1840

1850

1860

1870

1880

1890

1900

1910

1920

1930

1940

1950

1960

1970

1980

1990

2000

2010

2020
Ave TL1 TL2 TL3 TL4 TL5 TL6

Table 2 - Global Warming Rate (GWR), land only

Trendline Trendline period Trendline Global

i ID Center GWR Warming
from to years Acceleration
Symbol TL(i) CenterTL Δy a Δa GWA
Formula Formula 6 Formula 5 Formula 1 Formula 4 Formula 3
Units year year years year years °C/y °C/y °C/y2
1 TL1 1850 1910 61 1880 +0.005583
2 TL2 1860 1920 61 1890 10 +0.004718 -0.000865 -0.000087
3 TL3 1870 1930 61 1900 10 +0.005764 +0.001046 +0.000105
4 TL4 1880 1940 61 1910 10 +0.009694 +0.003930 +0.000393
5 TL5 1890 1950 61 1920 10 +0.008613 -0.001081 -0.000108
6 TL6 1900 1960 61 1930 10 +0.006541 -0.002072 -0.000207
7 TL7 1910 1970 61 1940 10 +0.005145 -0.001396 -0.000140
8 TL8 1920 1980 61 1950 10 +0.002857 -0.002288 -0.000229
9 TL9 1930 1990 61 1960 10 +0.005129 +0.002272 +0.000227
10 TL10 1940 2000 61 1970 10 +0.010380 +0.005251 +0.000525
11 TL11 1950 2010 61 1980 10 +0.019618 +0.009238 +0.000924
12 TL12 1961 2021 61 1991 11 +0.025828 +0.006210 +0.000565

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Chart 5 - GWR – Global Warming Rate, land only [°C/y]

0.030

0.025

0.020

0.015

0.010

0.005

0.000
1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1991

Axis x is the center of the 61 years trendline period

Chart 6 - GWA - Global Warming Acceleration, land only [°C/y 2]

0.0010

0.0008

0.0006

0.0004

0.0002

0.0000

-0.0002

-0.0004
1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1991

Axis x is the center of the 61 years trendline period

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Global Surface Temperature Changes over the Ocean

Chart 7 - Trendlines, ocean only, 1850-1900 baseline [8] [°C]

1.2

1.0

0.8

0.6

0.4

0.2

0.0

-0.2

-0.4
1880

1890

1900

1910

1920

1930

1940

1950

1960

1970

1980

1990

2000

2010

2020
NASA TL1 TL2 TL3 TL4

Table 3 - Global Warming Rate (GWR), ocean only

Trendline Trendline period Trendline Global

i ID Center GWR Warming
from to years Acceleration
Symbol TL(i) CenterTL Δy a Δa GWA
Formula Formula 6 Formula 5 Formula 1 Formula 4 Formula 3
Units year year years year years °C/y °C/y °C/y2
1 TL1 1880 1940 61 1910 -0.001397
2 TL2 1890 1950 61 1920 10 +0.003850 +0.005246 +0.000525
3 TL3 1900 1960 61 1930 10 +0.006790 +0.002940 +0.000294
4 TL4 1910 1970 61 1940 10 +0.006577 -0.000213 -0.000021
5 TL5 1920 1980 61 1950 10 +0.005600 -0.000978 -0.000098
6 TL6 1930 1990 61 1960 10 +0.005928 +0.000328 +0.000033
7 TL7 1940 2000 61 1970 10 +0.005895 -0.000032 -0.000003
8 TL8 1950 2010 61 1980 10 +0.009489 +0.003593 +0.000359
9 TL9 1961 2021 61 1991 11 +0.011652 +0.002163 +0.000197

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Chart 8 - GWR – Global Warming Rate, ocean only [°C/y]

0.014
0.012
0.010
0.008
0.006

0.004
0.002
0.000
-0.002
-0.004
1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1991

Axis x is the center of the 61 years trendline period

Chart 9 - GWA - Global Warming Acceleration, ocean only [°C/y 2]

0.0006

0.0005

0.0004

0.0003

0.0002

0.0001

0.0000

-0.0001

-0.0002
1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1991

Axis x is the center of the 61 years trendline period

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All Global Warming Rates and Acceleration

Chart 10 - All GWR – Global Warming Rate [°C/y]

0.030

0.025

0.020

0.015

0.010

0.005

0.000

-0.005
1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1991

Land+Ocean Land Ocean

Axis x is the center of the 61 years trendline period

Chart 11 - All GWA - Global Warming Acceleration [°C/y2]

0.0010

0.0008

0.0006

0.0004

0.0002

0.0000

-0.0002

-0.0004
1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1991

Land+Ocean Land Ocean

Axis x is the center of the 61 years trendline period

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Prediction of Next Decade Global Warming Rate Using GWA

Table 4 - Prediction of next decade Global Warming Rate using GWA for
land+ocean

Trendline period Trendline Global

Center GWR Warming
from to years Acceleration
CenterTL Δy a Δa GWA ΔGWA
Formula 6 Formula 5 Formula 1 Formula 4 Formula 3
year year years year years °C/y °C/y °C/y2 °C/y2
1950 2010 61 1980 10 +0.013362 +0.013362 +0.000562
1961 2021 61 1991 11 +0.017436 +0.004074 +0.000370 -0.000191
1972 2032 61 2002 11 +0.019405 +0.001969 +0.000179 -0.000191

Currently, the Global Warming Acceleration (GWA) is decreasing -0.000191°C/y 2. If

this decrease will continue for the next 11 years, the GWA for the 1972-2032 (center
2002) trendline will be +0.000179°C/y2, which will result in the Global Warming Rate
+0.019405°C/y, for land+ocean.

Chart 12 - Prediction of Global Warming Acceleration - GWA for the next

decade, land+ocean [°C/y2]

0.0006
0.0005
0.0004
0.0003
0.0002

0.0001
0.0000
-0.0001
-0.0002
-0.0003
1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1991 2002

Axis x is the center of the 61 years trendline period

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Chart 13 - Prediction of Global Warming Rate - GWR for the next decade,
land+ocean [°C/y2]

0.025

0.020

0.015

0.010

0.005

0.000

-0.005
1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1991 2002

Axis x is the center of the 61 years trendline period

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