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Is it just me, or is it warm in here?

Submitted by Charlton Stanley (aka Otteray Scribe), Guest Blogger

NASA logoNOAA logoApproximately 1,000 weather reporting stations all over the world have been monitoring local temperatures for decades. Temperature data have been compiled and analyzed by NASA scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.

Nine of the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since the year 2000. The tenth? From the 20th Century, that was 1998. Temperature rise is not completely steady and consistent from one year to the next. That is due to factors such as volcanic eruptions and other natural causes; however, trends are the important thing.

We can see from the short video below the flip that Earth continues to experience warmer temperatures than several decades ago. The average temperature around the globe in 2011 was 0.92 degrees F (0.51 C) warmer than the mid-20th century baseline. Weather experts warn that a consistent global average change of even a half-degree Fahrenheit can have catastrophic effects on global weather patterns. Anyone recall April and May 2011?


130 years in 27 seconds:

Source:NASA finds 2011 the ninth warmest year on record.

386 thoughts on “Is it just me, or is it warm in here?”

  2. Joe Blow:

    Your credibility ended with the old “harmless trace gas” description of CO2. You are clearly not a scientist and your posts are the standard denials with which we have all become familiar. Anecdotes and isolated facts are not arguments. And, of course, you don’t have a real name. It is as though “Larry” has moved from Civil War history to climate science.

  3. Pete,
    When there is a post that makes the 1% unhappy, one can expect their minions to come in with a truckload of short choppy posts designed to take over the thread and drive comments off the front page, rather than to engage in honest discussion. I think I should get a royalty or commission on that stuff.

  5. OKY1

    Mike Spindell 1, August 5, 2013 at 6:19 pm

    Joe Blow,

    I suppose you like your job as a corporate troll. Koch much?

    For someone who wants to be called queer sure does like to talk about cock

    1. Joe,

      Play out all your bigoted cards and it still won’t hide the fact that you’re a troll and probably a paid one. So what does that really make you in the scheme of things given your name and the probability you work for Koch. The joke is too obvious and it’s on you.

  7. Reposted minus the —->Dot<—–

    The Author Post A Video of a Melt Pond (NEAR) the North Pole not (At). The location is some 300 miles from the true North Pole.

    Melt Ponds during the Summer Melt Season is common. Today it is completely frozen over again.

    The Arctic is now at 100 plus consecutive days below normal during the middle of summer melt season.

    Here’s what it looks like today

    http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northpole/NPEO2013/18.jpg

  9. Reposted minus the —->Dot<—–

    The Author Post A Video of a Melt Pond (NEAR) the North Pole not (At). The location is some 300 miles from the true North Pole.

    Melt Ponds during the Summer Melt Season is common. Today it is completely frozen over again.

    The Arctic is now at 100 plus consecutive days below normal during the middle of summer melt season.

    Source DMI Center For Ocean and Ice Center
    http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php

    Question how does Ice Melt below 32 degrees anyways

  10. Reposted minus the —->Dot<—–

    All other links in my post work correctly

    Global Warming is suppose to make………Wild Fires More Extreme

    2013 2nd quietest fire season last ten years. Acreage burn trend is down last ten years.

    Source National Interagency Fire Center
    http://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/nfn.htm

  11. Joe Blow,

    An ole MSB I used to use had an ignore button on it.

    Maybe you have something relevant to post, but I read your comments from another thread & I wouldn’t think twice about hitting the ignore button on any further comments from you.

    Grow up, show some respect.

  12. Reposted minus the —->Dot<—–

    All other links in my post work correctly

    Global Warming is suppose to make…The Greenland Ice Sheet Disappear

    Result So much snow has fallen that for years the Green House was located at he right side of the fuel pit. They recently moved it to a new man built mound that it now sits on to the left.

    Look at the depth around the flags. They are having to plow away from the fuel pit everyday and push up past the flags onto the new mound they built.

    http://www.summitcamp.org/status/webcam/

  13. OS,

    Since the Jap/GE defectively built Fukushima Nook melt down mess background radiation levels have doubled over the last 2.5 something years.

    What in the heck do you imagine that is? It’s Heat, not Carbon.

    And since GE’s Fukus mess our govt has adopted a Lie to the people at all cost policy.

    I’d suggest you stop playing Al Gore & Jim Inhofe’s scam game.

    How many nukes have those “Masters of War” sat off since 1944?

    How many Nook Plant Melt downs have they dumped in the world’s Oceans.

    You & I don’t have the facts yet you wish to just embarrasses yourself in public on this issue.

    You, PBH51 & Larry need to take a break & get some air, I’m suggesting.

    The last thing I need or want is Al Gore & Jim Inhofe Polluting my area more then the Ahole Koch Brothers already are & that’s just what you’re supporting but haven’t even figured it out yet!

  14. Mr Scribe No one I know denies the globe has warmed. It’s the cause that is in question. And a harmless trace gas that is in the atmosphere that makes up a very very small percentage of the total mass can not be the one all cure all reason that Hurricanes will become more numerous and extreme, they haven’t. That fires will rage out of control they need O2 not CO2. That floods will increase,they haven’t. That drought will be exceptional,haven’t seen that since the Dust Bowl. On and On and On. Yes Global Warming is real, CO2 is just not the main driver.

  15. Now this is interesting. Former administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency, all Republicans, wrote a powerful OP-ED in the New York Times. The authors are: William D. Ruckelshaus, EPA Administrator from its founding in 1970 to 1973, and again from 1983 to 1985; Lee M. Thomas, from 1985 to 1989; William K. Reilly, from 1989 to 1993; and Christine Todd Whitman, from 2001 to 2003.

    They write:

    “There is no longer any credible scientific debate about the basic facts: our world continues to warm, with the last decade the hottest in modern records, and the deep ocean warming faster than the earth’s atmosphere. Sea level is rising. Arctic Sea ice is melting years faster than projected.”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/opinion/a-republican-case-for-climate-action.html?hp&_r=1&amp;

    They go on to endorse President Obama’s Climate Action Plan.

    http://www.whitehouse.gov/share/climate-action-plan

    I can see the heads exploding now. Facts are troublesome things. Incidentally, the links above are not “encrypted.” They should work.

  16. Joe Blow,
    Yes, I’d be surprised if you have a science education. Try me.
    You’ve published numerous articles on climatic science?
    Give us some non-encrypted URLs, so we can see your work.
    No more than two per comment, that’s the rule, here.
    I’m not going to bother translating your encrypted URLs.
    Just paste ’em in, like the peasants here, do.

    Mmmm…no, I don’t get viruses from clicking on URLs. I have protection from viruses. What century are you living in? Don’t the Koch brothers provide you with 21st century software?

  18. During 2006, the Sun’s “Conveyor Belt” was the slowest and fastest on record – at the same time as described by one of the worlds most recognized solar scientist

    May 10, 2006: The Sun’s Great Conveyor Belt has slowed to a record-low crawl, according to research by NASA solar physicist David Hathaway. “It’s off the bottom of the charts,” he says. “This has important repercussions for future solar activity.”

    http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/10may_longrange/

    March 12, 2010: What in the world is the sun up to now?

    In today’s issue of Science, NASA solar physicist David Hathaway reports that the top of the sun’s Great Conveyor Belt has been running at record-high speeds for the past five years.

  19. Seth Borenstein in Washington
    Associated Press
    December 12, 2007

    “The Arctic is screaming,” said Mark Serreze, senior scientist at the government’s snow and ice data center in Boulder, Colorado.

    This week, after reviewing his own new data, NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally said: “At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions.”

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071212-AP-arctic-melt.html

  20. New Scientist Dec 1, 1960

    If this goes on Mr. Murphy points out the Arctic will be open year round before the close of the 20th Century.

    If the warming in the Antarctic continues global sea level will rise 200 feet.

    http://books.google.com/books?id=yJjFw4bzRi0C&pg=PA1453&dq=global+warming&hl=en&ei=_vZbTfq4F5OCsQPI5vyxCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDAQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q&f=false

    I can find the same basic language from the early 1900’s only giving a sooner date for the melt.

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