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NASA: July 2016 Was Earth's Warmest Month On Record (weather.com)

mdsolar quotes a report from The Weather Channel: Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), operated by the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), calculated the global average July temperature was nearly one-fifth of a degree Celsius higher than previous July temperature records set in 2015 and in 2009. July was also 0.55 degrees Celsius higher than the July average for 1981-2010. Compared to the July average, the south-central part of the United States including Texas and into northern Mexico were the most anomalously warm for North America. Globally, portions of western Russia and the Southern Ocean were warmest compared to average. In Russia, fires and an anthrax outbreak have been blamed on warmer than average temperatures. Each of the last 12 months has been the warmest on record for their respective months. This is due to a combination of global climate variability and human activity according to C3S. July is typically the warmest month of the year globally because the Northern Hemisphere has more land masses than the Southern Hemisphere. (NASA GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP) confirms today.)

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  1. Re:Gets popcorn by wbr1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Okay I will. Arable production and water will move. Agreeably weather conditions will move. As resources dwindle in an area (water, soil conditions, flooding etc) mas migration, disease, and war will likely occur. Do you want half of Bangladesh camping on your doorstep?

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  2. Re: Was this before or after adjustments? by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not an ad hominem attack to call a pseudoskeptic out. The poster made no indication of understanding how data is analyzed, but basically claimed either incompetence or conspiracy by NOAA scientists.

    I'll ask everyone who rejects AGW, where in the hell is all that energy being absorbed by CO2 going? If there's some unknown heat sink dumping the solar radiation being absorbed by CO2 back into space, what exactly is it? After all, thermodynamics still reigns supreme last time I heard, so there's no perpetual magic refrigeration unit in the sky getting rid of excess energy be capture due to higher CO2 concentrations, so where is it?

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  3. Re: Was this before or after adjustments? by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Your cherry picking an entire study based on the word "adjusted". In other words, you're partaking of the favorite aspect of pseudoscience, out of context quoting, because you either cannot understand the research, or don't want to.

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  4. Re:No Problem Here by crunchygranola · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ah, the five stages of climate denial. You are on number 4.

    1. Deny It Exists
    2. Deny We're the Cause
    3. Deny It's Really a Problem
    4. Deny We Can Solve It
    5. It's Too Late, So Let's Not Do Anything
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