Every Month This Year Has Been the Hottest In Recorded History (vice.com)

Slashdot reader iONiUM quotes an article from Vice that calls attention to the fact that record-setting temperatures in July are just part of the story: On Wednesday, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that July was the hottest month ever recorded on our planet, since modern record-keeping began in 1880. NASA has reached the same conclusion. July smashed all previous records... "We should be absolutely concerned," [NOAA climatologist] Sanchez-Lugo said. "We need to look at ways to adapt and mitigate. If we don't, temperatures will continue to increase"...

But the truth is that record-breaking temperatures, month after month, year after year, are starting to look less like an exception, more like the norm.
In fact, CityLab reports that the earth has now experienced 14 consecutive months of unprecedented hotness. Although July stands out, Vice notes that "each consecutive month in 2016 has broken its own previous record (May was the hottest May, April the hottest April, etc.)..."

Comments

Re:Which shows they're cooking the Books

[jedidiah]

They need to go back to calling it "climate" change because facts on the ground differ. Either that or they need to account for people's contrary direct observations in some meaningful way.

Although the Chicken Little routine doesn't serve any real purpose. It's like how in our day jobs, some suit running around screaming hysterically doesn't really help things.

Re:This is the year of the extreme climate claims

[religionofpeas]

Would be great if you cited the sources and showed the numbers.

Finding the sources and the numbers is so easy, that anybody could do that themselves. Consider it part of the exercise.