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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.)..."
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.)..."
It's so extreme its becoming funny to watch..
http://realclimatescience.com/2016/08/connecting-the-dots-on-extreme-climate-fraud/
It's hot in the summer. Duh. The Big Climate scientists need their grant money. Obummer uses this false flag to put us under UN NWO. Shillary wants to take our guns and our cars.
Feel free to add any memes I forgot.
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The claim that every month in the last 14 is the HOTTEST EVER is absurd. I know for certain that for very large portions of the Earth that hasn't been at all true. I imagine it is simply an artifact of the way they are currently averaging the temperatures. Have some of the months been hot, of course, but all of them is an absurdity used to push an agenda. It is not in any way a global phenomenon.
Even if there was a very strong global warming trend (far stronger than the expected) it still wouldn't be every month for 14 consecutive months. As an example, it claims that my area(yes I read the article) was "much warmer than average" in June, which wasn't true, it was pretty normal (in fact, there was a somewhat unseasonable stretch of coolness during some of that time). Now July, July was hot. Either their technique is useless, or it doesn't mean what they say it does. Its possible that June was still the warmest June on record, but their failure at such a basic task leads me to question that. If you can't keep straight the actual weather, why should I trust your interpretations of worldwide temperature?
Is global warming happening? Sure, but this scaremongering is absurd.
Does it matter? It's not reverseable anyway. Just live further north and away from the shoreline, problem solved.
Hey, in a few thousand years the current interglacial will probably come to an end, and our descendants will be glad we heated the place up in advance.
Not going to be much fun until then, though.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
We have only been able to measure this arbitrary thing we call "global temperature" in the era of Earth monitoring satellites, the first of which was launched in the 1960s and lacked a temperature sensing instrument.
All temperature data before about 1970 is either from [a] surface weather stations (on land and in bouys at sea), which have been very randomly and sparsely distributed, [b] the logs of ships at sea which were VERY sparsely distributed, or [c] indirect things with no calibration, no precision, and no actual validation like tree rings and ice cores. Given that the weather stations were essentially mapped to the spread of modern western civilization and the ship data to shipping lanes used by modern western civilization, this means most of planet Earth has no temerature data from before about a century ago. Even most of the US has no temerature data from more than two centuries ago.
200 years of temperature data (I'm being VERY generous here) out of 6000000000 years = a sample of 0.000000033
This is statistical junk, but an election is approaching so end-of-the-world hypebole is in order.
Even if temperatures for the past 50 years had been up by 100 degrees, it would dissapear into the nois of any chart of global climate. These arguments over .1 degree changes within even 50 year timeframes are completely silly for anything other than political agitation and propaganda particularly when one considers that the geological record indicates a number of bygone eras of both much higher temperatures and glaciation (long before mankindwas here to build either cars or solar panels)