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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Re: Was this before or after adjustments?

[phantomfive]

I'll ask everyone who rejects AGW, where in the hell is all that energy being absorbed by CO2 going?

Most scientific skeptics don't disagree that the energy is being absorbed by CO2, they more generally think that it's overstated or not a problem. There are three main 'unorthodox' groups on AGW:

1) The insane people. No more explanation.

2) Those who agree with the standard science line, but disagree on economics principals. Thus Bjorn Lomborg claims that economically speaking, it's better spend our resources on growing our economy, and helping poor people now, rather than trying to stop AGW.

3) Those who claim that the predictions are unsupported by science. Thus John Christy and Richard Lindzen accept (along with the scientific community) that doubling CO2 will produce a .7-1.3 increase in global temperatures, but they reject as unfounded scientifically the various conjectural feedbacks that will bring the increase to anywhere from 2 - 15 degrees (as you can see from that range, there is a large amount of uncertainty there). They consider AGW to be worth watching, but not worth worrying about yet.

Some AGW predictions get wild, such as that the oceans will boil and it will be the end of civilization.