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July Heat Set U.S. Record
gollum123 sends this excerpt from CNN:
"The July heat wave that wilted crops, shriveled rivers and fueled wildfires officially went into the books Wednesday as the hottest single month on record for the continental United States. The average temperature across the Lower 48 was 77.6 degrees Fahrenheit, 3.3 degrees above the 20th-century average, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration reported. That edged out the previous high mark, set in 1936, by two-tenths of a degree, NOAA said. In addition, the seven months of 2012 to date are the warmest of any year on record and were drier than average as well, NOAA said. U.S. forecasters started keeping records in 1895. And the past 12 months have been the warmest of any such period on record, topping a mark set between July 2011 and this past June. Every U.S. state except Washington experienced warmer-than-average temperatures, NOAA reported."
In 1936, according to the article, it was almost as warm. Basically, a "so what?".
Never read The Grapes of Wrath I take it.
0.2 degrees higher than the the hottest month on record is certainly a notable event.
Ex-sceptic says climate change is down to humans
"The results of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature are in and Richard Muller, the study's director (formerly an AGW skeptic) declares, 'Call me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct. I'm now going a step further: Humans are almost entirely the cause.'
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/the-conversion-of-a-climate-change-skeptic.html?_r=4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19047501
CEO Exxon admits AGW is real and burning fossil fuels causes it.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/27/exxon-ceo-climate-energy-fears-overblown/
The natural progression:
We are now at step 4.
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
And the fact that weather is setting records across the globe year after year right now, is not a concern because equipment used in 1936 had almost the same reading?
I think the fact that the previous record was set in 1936 pretty much disproves your "fact" that the weather is setting records "year after year". "Year after year" to most people means "every year or two", not "every 7 decades or so".
Should we also rename Fahrenheit 451 to Celsius 232.778?
505.928 Kelvin is better.
Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
The 5 stages of denial:
1: It's not happening.
2: It's happening, but it's no big deal.
3: It's happening, it's a big deal, but there's nothing we can do.
4: It's happening, it's a big deal, this is what we can do, but it's too expensive.
5: It's happening, it's a big deal, this is what we can do, the alternative is worse, so let's just get on with it.
Alright - we're at step 2 of the denial process! Looks like we've made progress in the last.... 25 years or so. I hope step 3 won't take another 25 years.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, sue.
As soon as Al Gore gives up his mansions and jet setting lifestyle, I'll join you in turning off my computers and air conditioner.
The 1936 record was a monthly average record, not a yearly record. Even if we didn't beat it, 1936 wouldn't be in the top 10 yearly records while 2012 will almost certainly be.
The monthly records prior to 2012 were not all in the same year. The new monthly records are now all from the same year.