Using A Reference Period Outdated 30 Years, Germany’s DWD Weather Service Turns Cooling Into Warming

By Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt
Die kalte Sonne
(Text translated, edited by P. Gosselin)

Globally, the deviation of the global mean temperature of the satellite-based measurements from the mean of period 1991-2020 rose slightly in December to 0.21 degrees Celsius. The mean temperature increase since satellite measurements began was 0.14 degrees Celsius per decade. The year 2021 was an average year compared to 2010 to 2020, with 0.134 degrees deviation from the thirty-year average. Six years since 2010 were warmer and 5 years were colder.

This is also true for Germany. But the German weather service gives a different impression

Chart: Dr. Roy Spencer

How the German DWD Weather Service turned cooling into warming in 2021  

In its press release on Germany’s weather in 2021, the German Weather Service writes: “The mean temperature [Germany] in 2021 was 9.1 degrees Celsius (°C), 0.9 degrees above the value of the internationally valid reference period 1961 to 1990. 2021 was thus the eleventh year in a row that was too warm.”

Why does the DWD use the internationally no longer valid 1961-1990 reference period? It writes itself elsewhere: “To record the climate and its changes, mean values are formed over a period of 30 years…With the end of the year 2020, the reference period for current climatological assessments was replaced by the 1991 to 2020 period.”

Fudging with the reference period

The DWD thus followed the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)recommendation. But in the press release, the DWD still prefers to use the old, outdated period. The 1991 to 202 0reference period differs from the one of 1961 to 1990 by 1.1 degrees. So the DWD should have written : “2021 was 9.1 degrees, 1.3 degrees cooler than 2020 and even -0.2 degrees Celsius below the average from 1991 to 2020. Since 1991 there have only been 9 years colder than 2021.”

But 0.9 degrees more and the eleventh year in a row that is too warm (compared to the colder period of 1961-1990) of course fits much better with the zeitgeist.

Read original in German at Die kalte Sonne




17 responses to “Using A Reference Period Outdated 30 Years, Germany’s DWD Weather Service Turns Cooling Into Warming”

  1. John Hultquist

    They should use the 30-year period centered on 1800.
    Their attempt at data manipulation is amateurish.

  2. Alex

    Dr. Roy Spencer Ph.D, has been demonetised by Google. https://www.drroyspencer.com/2022/01/unreliable-and-harmful-claims-this-website-has-been-demonetized-by-google/
    The dictatorship of by the media continues.

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  7. Steve Richards

    Why don’t they use a rolling century long reference temperature ? Why 30 years ? Half of the main ocean cycles.

    1. stewartpid

      The hundred year old satellites didn’t fjy worth a sheet Steve 😉

      global mean temperature of the satellite-based measurements

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  13. ArndB

    The 30 years period was shortly used briefly before the II. World War.

    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate (IPCC), turns the meaningless “average weather” into an inflated nonsense, namely, according its Glossary:
    Climate in a narrow sense is usually defined as the average weather, or more rigorously, as the statistical description in terms of the mean and variability of relevant quantities over a period of time ranging from months to thousands or millions of years. (cont.)
    But the story gets even worst, complete preposterous, when asking how IPCC defines “weather”. The result is shocking; the Glossary of IPCC offers nothing.
    Even the weather definition in the AMS – Glossary (American Meteorological Society) does not provide a usable solution, by explaining that
    __ Popularly, weather is thought of in terms of temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, visibility, and wind, and
    __ the “present weather” table consists of 100 possible conditions, and
    __ the “past weather”; of 10 possible conditions.
    __ future weather is not listed

    Read the full discussion at: https://oceansgovernclimate.com/people-defend-your-climate-as-you-use-it-for-2000-years/

  14. John

    .1C may be considered alarming by some people. In the past has it ever rose at that silent? Has the rate of increase gotten larger? It certainly looks that way

  15. Chris Hanley

    “The mean temperature [Germany] in 2021 was 9.1 degrees Celsius (°C) … 2021 was thus the eleventh year in a row that was too warm”.
    If that is an accurate translation it is a ridiculous statement, as if the German government weather service can dictate what the mean annual temperature of Germany ought to be.

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