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Earth on Pace For Fourth-Warmest Year on Record, NOAA and NASA Say (weather.com)
The first nine months of 2018 was the fourth-warmest such period on Earth since record-keeping began in 1880, NOAA and NASA said in their analyses this week. From a report: 2016 had the warmest January-September period, according to NOAA, followed by 2017, then 2015. NASA's analysis agreed the Earth was on pace for its fourth-warmest year. NASA climate modeler Gavin Schmidt said in a tweet that 2018 was "almost guaranteed" to be the fourth-warmest year in its period of record. Record or near-record warmth in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America helped propel the January-September 2018 period to the fourth-warmest on record, NOAA said.
With temperatures 3.35 degrees Fahrenheit (1.86 degrees Celsius) above average, Europe had its record-warmest first nine months of the year, exceeding the previous record set in 2014 by more than 0.23 degrees Fahrenheit (0.13 degrees Celsius). Records in the continent date to 1910. Breaking it down a bit further, Africa had its fifth-warmest year-to-date temperature on record, Asia its sixth-warmest and South America its eighth-warmest, according to NOAA. North America experienced its lowest January-September temperature departure from average since 2013. The only notable pocket of cooler-than-average temperatures in 2018's first nine months was over the far North Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland.
With temperatures 3.35 degrees Fahrenheit (1.86 degrees Celsius) above average, Europe had its record-warmest first nine months of the year, exceeding the previous record set in 2014 by more than 0.23 degrees Fahrenheit (0.13 degrees Celsius). Records in the continent date to 1910. Breaking it down a bit further, Africa had its fifth-warmest year-to-date temperature on record, Asia its sixth-warmest and South America its eighth-warmest, according to NOAA. North America experienced its lowest January-September temperature departure from average since 2013. The only notable pocket of cooler-than-average temperatures in 2018's first nine months was over the far North Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland.
"See, only the forth warmest year. It hasn't warmed since 2016. This global warming nonsense is over. I'm going to go molest some brown children in cages now."
the "hottest on record". All you have to do is edit the historical record to make it so, and that is exactly what they've been doing. They started by first throwing out the actual thermometer records and replaced them with "synthetic" records, i.e., made up out of thin air. That got them the rising part of the hockey stick. Then they began editing the historical records to flatten out the handle of the stick.
Even back in 2009 & 2011 you could read them plotting, planning and doing the cooking in the CRU emails.
Running with Linux for over 20 years!
Because this is a global problem that Republicans are effectively blocking solutions to, in one of the few nations with the resources and capabilities to make the difference between total global catastrophe and narrowly averting it?
Don't be smug, in this case it also makes you look stupid.
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