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The Top Weather/Climate Events of 2015 (wunderground.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the any-time-this-doesn't-include-something-about-meteorites-it's-a-good-year dept.

Layzej writes: With only a few stations left to report, 2015 is virtually certain to beat 2014's record as the planet's warmest year since record keeping began in 1880. The new record was caused by the long-term warming of the planet due to human-caused emissions of heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide, combined with a extra bump in temperature due to the strongest El Niño event ever recorded in the Eastern Pacific. Record warm ocean temperatures in the tropics in 2015 led to a global coral bleaching event, which is expected to cause a loss of 10 — 20% of all coral worldwide. Weather Underground recounts several other records that accompanied the heat including the most intense hurricane ever observed in the Western Hemisphere, the ongoing agricultural fires in Indonesia — the most expensive disaster in Indonesia's history estimated at $16 billion in damages, flooding in America and India, and record central pacific hurricane activity.

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  1. Re:Not according to satellites by russotto · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ah, but the satellite data is obviously wrong, because it clearly shows the "hiatus"
      that we're assured didn't happen. Every other dataset that has been carefully examined to find and eliminate causes for the "hiatus" has been successfully corrected, it won't be long for this one.

  2. Re:So...a year with fewer hurricanes = no warming? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't you understand BASIC SCIENCE?

    Extreme weather of any kind is evidence of global warming.
    Mild weather isn't evidence against global warming because weather isn't the same as climate.
    Data that shows warming is obviously valid evidence.
    Data that shows anything other than warming is invalid because the measurements must have missed ocean heat sinks or something, or obviously it would have shown warming.

    So sick of you deniers who don't even understand basic scientific method.

  3. Re:What was "Adjusted" this year? by hey! · · Score: 3, Funny

    The average of the instrumental record ... just like last year, and the year before that. The thing that you're missing is that it's reasonable to do this to account for the fact that you've added additional stations to the dataset, which would alter the raw average.

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  4. Re:Does anyone have a list of the hottest years? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1, Funny

    Not a chart, not using "departure from average" or whatever the fuck.

    Those goddamn SJW charts and graphs.

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