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NOAA: Earth Smashed A Record For Heat In May 2014, Effects To Worsen

Freshly Exhumed (105597) writes with news that NOAA's latest global climate analysis is showing things are getting hotter. From the article: Driven by exceptionally warm ocean waters, Earth smashed a record for heat in May and is likely to keep on breaking high temperature marks, experts say. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Monday said May's average temperature on Earth of 15.54 C beat the old record set four years ago. In April, the globe tied the 2010 record for that month. Records go back to 1880. Experts say there's a good chance global heat records will keep falling, especially next year because an El Nino weather event is brewing on top of man-made global warming. An El Nino is a warming of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean that alters climate worldwide and usually spikes global temperatures.

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  1. records go back to 1880, very funny by rubycodez · · Score: 1, Troll

    taking measurements from inaccurate thermometers and scant coverage from over a century ago, and claiming we know global average temperatures in the 19th century is beyond ludicrous. No amount of massaging of data can make credible comparison to today's grid of sensors.

    1. Re:records go back to 1880, very funny by rubycodez · · Score: 0, Troll

      more like, there just weren't enough of them with recorded measurements to say anything about the globe

      also they weren't located in heat islands as more than half of today's are, that's for sure

  2. Re:It's about time by MightyMartian · · Score: 0, Troll

    How many times does this cherry picked claim have to be posted. Warming did not stop for 15 years, for chrissakes, and you're either a liar or a moron for restating it.

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  3. Re:It's about time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hey, he made some sort of font, *and* a website! He's super qualified to talk about global climate change.

  4. Re:It's about time by bobbied · · Score: 0, Troll

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/10916086/The-scandal-of-fiddled-global-warming-data.html

    OR for the article's sources you can look at.

    https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/author/stevengoddard/

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  5. Re:It's hard to keep the stories straight these da by schwit1 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Be careful. Speaking truth to power with this administration means a visit from the IRS or the climate change police.

  6. Re:It's about time by MightyMartian · · Score: 0, Troll

    The Telegraph and a denier's site. Yes, so very convincing.

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  7. Godless progressives by Bodhammer · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't get you proglodytes. You hate people, hence your support of abortion (murder) even though there is a "scientific consensus" that life begins at conception. So the earth warms and kills off a few billion people and in 500 years the earth recovers and reverts back to the mean. What is the problem? So a few species go extinct, new species will form ala Darwinism. Get over it, global warming is natural, people came from evolution so if we caused a change, it is "natural" and the "natural" system will fix it.

    You can't have it both ways - either humans are part of the system or above the system - which is it?

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  8. NOAA Findings by hackus · · Score: 0, Troll

    So what?

    Whether you believe the alarmists like Al Gore telling every one you need to live in a card board box, for the sake of his elitist friends and pay all of your income in carbon taxes, or the outright liars who claim Humans have zero affects on climate change:

    One thing is for certain, postulation about whether or not it is actually a bad thing to have the earth warmer or colder isn't something either side seems to acknowledge because obviously the earth during the last 250,000 years of human existence has been way hotter and way colder than it is now.

    Further more, I am more worried about plans to INTENTIONALLY overload the biosphere with idots thinking a complex multi billion year old planetary biosphere is as simplistic as what they create in the lab and draw conclusions on.

    I mean crazy bat shit conclusions like spraying the atmosphere with aerosols or sucking the CO2 out of the atmosphere on purpose.

    THAT is what scares me, not global warming or cooling or whatever you believe.

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  9. Re:Deniers can't make up their minds by iggymanz · · Score: 1, Troll

    science has proved what?

    this isn't the hottest year on record, and artic ice levels are greater than last years which were greater than the year before

    antarctic glaciers not melting because of global average temperature rising, but volcanoes

    in fact, science says the hottest years in the last 13,000 years for a whopping 3,000 year stretch occured over 7,000 years ago, hotter global average temperatuer than now.

    what is it with the guilt over progress, the hysteria you warming alarmists have?

  10. Re:It's about time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Goddard is a well known fraud.
    Not that that stops you fools from quoting him.

  11. Re:It's about time by dywolf · · Score: 1, Troll

    yes. a texas (oil state) researcher (funded by oil companies) thinks the reason the ice sheet is melting is underwater volcanos.

    which totally explains why the ice sheet is losing mass from its boundaries and upper surface, instead of the bottom surface directly and in closest contact with said theorized volcanoes....totally logical right?

    do your part to stop the spread of misinformation: stop posting.

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