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.

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It will change back

[PopeRatzo]

Don't laugh. It could happen, according to our big, wet, President. We just have to wait it out.

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

And we know for sure that he knows what he's talking about, because he says he has a "natural instinct for science".

https://www.politico.com/story...

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I don't know about the rest of you, but that's good enough for me.

Re:Threshold

[Anonymous Coward]

Getting used to is not that hard. On average, all you have to do to maintain the same temperature is to move towards the nearest pole at the rate of 5km / year. If everyone (workers, farmers, animals) does that, then we're all fine. Since you're moving, choose a new place that is also safe from sea rise, obviously.

Re:Threshold

[Anonymous Coward]

So. . . .
2016 was the hottest year
2017 was the third hottest year
2018 was the fourth hottest year

Shouldn't the headline be "Earth is cooling!"?

Re:Another day

[PopeRatzo]

Another PopeCrapso post where he whines about Trump, who lives in his head rent free.
Poor butthurt lil lib.

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