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by Uhhrrr 1742 days ago
Your new chart overlays all ten years for each decade over each other with the same color. This is great for obscuring, but not much else. Is there a reason you don't like the more legible chart I posted?

Looking again at your original link, Hansen's scenario B predicts a ~1.45 deg increase from 1988. So, in answer to your question, not that.

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If you scroll down just a bit you'll see this one.

https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v4/graph_data/Glob...

And, where do you see 1.45 C forecast for 2020 outside of Scenario A? Scenario B doesn't even come close to the 1.25 indicator line.

The realclimate.org graph (https://www.realclimate.org/images/Hansen88_forc.jpg) shows B as off the chart by 2020, but 1988 is around .2 and 2015 is around 1.45. Extending another 5 years, should be about 1.45 deg C difference by 2020.

The NASA chart shows a rise of about .7 during that time.

That's not a graph of temperature. It's a graph of the emissions (expressed as a forcing) that define each scenario. You want the one below it.
So it is, my apologies.