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World Breaks Monthly Heat Record Twice in a Row

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Friday, August 1, 2014 1:01 AM

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

World Breaks Monthly Heat Record Twice in a Row

Tue, 07/22/2014 - 3:30pm
Seth Borenstein, AP Science Writer

Heat records in June broke on every continent but Antarctica, especially in New Zealand, northern South America, Greenland, central Africa and southern Asia.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The globe is on a hot streak, setting a heat record in June. That's after the world broke a record in May.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced July 21, 2014, that last month's average global temperature was 61.2 degrees, which is 1.3 degrees higher than the 20th century average. It beat 2010's old record by one-twentieth of a degree.

While one-twentieth of a degree doesn't sound like much, in temperature records it's like winning a horse race by several lengths, said NOAA climate monitoring chief Derek Arndt.

And that's only part of it. The world's oceans not only broke a monthly heat record at 62.7 degrees, but it was the hottest the oceans have been on record no matter what the month, Arndt said.

"We are living in the steroid era of the climate system," Arndt said.

Arndt said both the June and May records were driven by unusually hot oceans, especially the Pacific and Indian oceans.

Heat records in June broke on every continent but Antarctica, especially in New Zealand, northern South America, Greenland, central Africa and southern Asia.

The United States had only its 33rd hottest June.

All 12 of the world's monthly heat records have been set after 1997, more than half in the last decade. All the global cold monthly records were set before 1917.

And with a likely El Nino this year — the warming of the tropical Pacific which influences the world's weather and increases global temperatures — it is starting to look like another extra warm year, said University of Arizona climate scientist Jonathan Overpeck.

The first six months of the year are the third warmest first six months on record, coming behind 2010 and 1998, according to NOAA

Global temperature records go back to 1880 and this is the 352nd hotter than average month in a row.

"This is what global warming looks like," Overpeck said in an email. "Not record hot everywhere all the time, but certainly a reflection that the odds of record hot are going up everywhere around the planet."

NOAA on June tempertures: http://1.usa.gov/1yQQQqb

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Friday, August 1, 2014 6:23 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

All time low record for late July set here in GA.

59 degrees.

Damn near needed a sweatshirt to wear outside in the morning.

Brrrr!

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Friday, August 1, 2014 9:47 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

OMG! It was cold in rappy's backyard!

Well, the man obviously can't tell the difference between "the world" and his backyard. Which explains his other thread about NOAA quietly changing the hottest year... or was it month? ... or day? ... for the world... or was it the USA...?

UNITS, dude. They tell you what you're talking about. Dollars. Degrees centigrade. Per day. Per gallon. Per person.

Learn to read them and use them.

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Friday, August 1, 2014 9:53 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Facts are facts, Sig.

59 broke a record if 61 for July , which had been set... a couple of weeks prior. This is the 2nd summer in a row that's been cooler & wetter than normal. Not merely a day or a week, pumpkin.

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Friday, August 1, 2014 9:57 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Facts are facts. THE WORLD AS A WHOLE broke the monthly heat record. AVERAGE temperature. WORLD.

Bone up on basic math and reading comprehension please, 'mkay? Then you will be able to ascertain facts and respond intelligently.

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Friday, August 1, 2014 10:27 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

So you say. I'll comment on what I DO know, not only what I'm told to think / believe.

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Friday, August 1, 2014 10:53 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

So, you don't believe anything the press tells you about events far away, but prefer to base your information directly on your senses?

Tell me... how did you know about Saddam's WMD, then? Did you see any personally?

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Friday, August 1, 2014 11:20 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Like the reporting if events in Ukraine ?

Yeah.

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Friday, August 1, 2014 11:23 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

So, I take it you don't believe ANY of the reporting on Ukraine?

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Friday, August 1, 2014 12:25 PM

REAVERFAN

He can't possibly be that dumb. He's just being a dick because it's real, and he's invested so much in denying it all this time.

It's hard for some people to admit when they're wrong.

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Friday, August 1, 2014 12:41 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Either he's really smart and doing a bang-up job of pretending to be dumb, or he's a troll, or he's really as dumb as he portrays himself. Since he's been exceptionally consistent over the years- at one time proudly calling himself a Limbaugh ditto head - I vote for the last.

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Friday, August 1, 2014 1:14 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, I take it you don't believe ANY of the reporting on Ukraine?

Do you ? Or do you ' choose ' to believe what you want ?

Think before you reply

* Oh, and to answer YOUR question... sure. I believe there was an airliner shot down in Ukraine. Shot down by a missile. And there's Russian backed separatists who are shooting at the Ukrainians... not sure where the disagreement is.

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Friday, August 1, 2014 1:22 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

"Think before I reply?"

Well, you haven't replied, and I asked the question first, so... after YOU, son!

I await!

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Saturday, August 2, 2014 1:04 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Seriously, DOOD, do you really not believe anything you can't see, hear, feel, taste, or smell for yourself?

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Saturday, August 2, 2014 7:21 AM

JONGSSTRAW

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Saturday, August 2, 2014 7:50 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Seriously, DOOD, do you really not believe anything you can't see, hear, feel, taste, or smell for yourself?

I answered above. Now your turn.

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Saturday, August 2, 2014 11:05 AM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Seriously, DOOD, do you really not believe anything you can't see, hear, feel, taste, or smell for yourself?

The world is actually a lot wetter than usual. I know this for a fact because it rained here last night.

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Saturday, August 2, 2014 11:19 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

Yanno, you all don't really have to reply to rappy and jongsie. We CAN have intelligent discussion here if you don't get derailed into their trolling.

SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

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Saturday, August 2, 2014 11:52 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

I agree. Rappy refuses to answer a rather simple question about what he accepts as good info and what he doesn't. And JS apparently accepts cartoons but not scientific reports. Kinda tells us everything we already know about them, eh?

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