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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records go back to 1880, very funny

[rubycodez]

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.

Re:It's hard to keep the stories straight these da

[schwit1]

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

Re:Deniers can't make up their minds

[iggymanz]

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?

Re:It's about time

[dywolf]

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.