NASA Reports Hottest January On Record

earth-screensaver_largeWe have been following reports on climate change that appear to support the view that major changes are occurring around the world. This week, NASA released figures showing that, after setting records in 2015, January was was the warmest on record. In another story, Australian wine producers are faced with changing grapes due to the sharp change in climate in that country. As someone who loves Australian reds, the news hits particularly hard and captures the range of subtle and substantial changes that will have to be made in light of the worsening situation.


This follows findings of the warmest December on record.

jan2016-nasa-anomaliesJanuary was not just the warmest but the most anomalously warm month in 135 years of record keeping. There have now been four months with such high temperatures. According to NASA, temperatures in some parts of the Arctic averaged up to 23°F above normal for the month. A new low in ice formation was also set in January with sea ice extent was 402,000 square miles below average.

Here is the report: Climate Change Report

17 thoughts on “NASA Reports Hottest January On Record”

  1. I would expect climate to change. Chaos mathematics arose in part from weather studies. The history of the planet has recorded multiple changes in climate. There were no icecaps during the age of dinosaurs. The Roman and Medieval warm periods were warmer than the present warming. The science is not settled. ‘Settled’ science when settled by politicians and scientists whose financial survival depends on their grants is more like religion than actual science.

    It the ‘settled’ science were so good, why are their predictions so bad? The ice caps are supposed to be gone altogether by now. They are still there. Hurricanes were supposed to be more frequent and severe after Katrina–they weren’t. The oceans were supposed to flood everything yet sea level rise has slowed.

    How many b.s. and patently wrong predictions do you need before you realize these people are not telling you the truth?

    By contrast, incidentally, predictions from Einstein’s Relativity have been on the mark time and again, most recently with the discovery of the gravity waves he predicted. That’s what happens when your science is right.

  2. Just over 2* of warming…

    http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata_v3/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_weather&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central

    Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec J-D D-N DJF MAM JJA SON Year
    2001 44 46 57 52 58 54 59 49 55 51 70 54 54 52 40 56 54 58 2001
    2002 74 75 90 58 64 54 60 54 63 56 58 41 62 63 68 71 56 59 2002
    2003 72 54 56 54 62 48 54 65 66 75 54 73 61 58 56 57 56 65 2003
    2004 57 69 65 62 41 42 26 44 52 65 71 51 54 56 66 56 38 63 2004
    2005 71 57 69 68 63 65 65 62 76 79 74 66 68 67 60 67 64 76 2005
    2006 55 70 63 48 46 63 54 70 63 69 72 77 63 62 64 52 63 68 2006
    2007 95 68 69 74 68 57 61 60 63 60 56 48 65 67 80 70 59 60 2007
    2008 25 34 73 52 50 46 59 44 63 66 66 53 53 52 36 59 50 65 2008
    2009 60 53 52 60 63 66 72 67 69 64 77 64 64 63 56 58 68 70 2009
    2010 73 78 92 87 74 64 61 64 61 70 79 48 71 72 72 84 63 70 2010
    2011 50 50 63 65 53 58 73 72 55 65 55 52 59 59 49 60 68 59 2011
    2012 45 48 57 68 76 61 56 63 74 78 73 51 62 63 48 67 60 75 2012
    2013 66 55 64 52 61 65 58 65 76 69 80 66 65 63 57 59 63 75 2013
    2014 73 50 77 78 85 65 57 81 89 85 68 78 74 73 63 80 68 81 2014
    2015 81 86 89 73 78 77 72 77 82 106 102 111 86 83 82 80 75 97 2015
    2016 113 **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** *** **** **** **** **** 2016
    Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec J-D D-N DJF MAM JJA SON Year

  3. That is even if it was the hottest month on record….what were the heating and cooling days? Because thats the feedback loop the claim about ” global” warming”…. Funny once your place heats up it can take a day or two of cold….without burning too much fuel. But if its too cool you burn fuel. Adding to the alleged problem. So even tho or if jan was “hot” it wasn’t warm enough. Whats the stat ob heating cooling days? Thats all that matters. It doesn’t matter bfe with no one heating cooling.

  4. Our hvac maintained. Our stat four dgrees lower than last year….power bill still more this year than last. That is if you care about “emmissions”…which allegedly causes ” climate” change then ask your self….do you want your heater on everyday of the month or just a couple?

  5. jim22 “Wow, 135 years of record keeping! That’s a loooong time!” Good one.

    Watched a National Geographic show today at my boss’ house. Apparently scientists have been tracking Arctic ice with satellites since 1979. Wow. Such a long time. LOL. Anyway, they showed how the ice was melting, leaving polar bears looking pathetic and stranded. Only problem was they were showing this phenomena in the month of August every time! I pointed this out to my boss’ husband (they are true global warming, climate change believers)…that it’s AUGUST and the ice is sure to melt from higher summer temperatures and he assured me that August was in fact WINTER in Russia! I kid you not.

  6. NASA: “Never A Straight Answer”.

    More evidence available at: “NASA Mooned America”
    http://www.amazon.com/NASA-mooned-America-Rene/dp/B0006QL8KE

    The author, Ralph Rene appeared on “Third Point of View”, a program on Monmouth CableVision, of which I was Director. He was lucid, rational, well-spoken, and very entertaining. Florida Mensa threw him out when he was too smart for their leadership who he caught embezzling member funds. I have a autographed copy of this book. I would believe HIM before I ever believed NASA (which, I would politely remind the reader, is an agency funded – and therefore controlled – by the United States government).

    “People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception” – C.D. Warner.
    And, so, NO I do NOT believe humans ever set foot on the Moon, just as I disbelieve their climate data.

  7. Has ANYONE ever given a thought to all the RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL from FUKUSHIMA that has been dumping into the ocean EVER CONSIDERED THE FACT THAT NUCLEAR MATERIAL CAUSES THE TEMPERATURE OF THE WATER TO RISE????? … AND HOW THAT IN ITSELF CAN AFFECT THE CLIMATE???? NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT IT POISONS, MUTATES AND KILLS THE LIFE IN THE OCEAN?

  8. Is it paranoid schizophrenia to not do anything about the scientific theory of man-made global climate change? OR, is it paranoid schizophrenia to believe you MUST act today or the end of the world will happen?

    What is even more insane is to believe countries like China will get with the program. More “progress” unintelligently planned. Political science will destroy this country and perhaps our planet long before climate science.

  9. How can that be? It’s only 10 degrees today in western NY! Science, schmience. As The Donald said, it’s just weather! Now him I trust. I sure don’t trust those government agencies that have ulterior motives to help save the planet’s ecosystem.

    And Ted Cruz calls climate science bunk, ‘The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming.’ I trust Ted, not these scientists who have studied these trends for decades. They just want more taxpayer funding for their failed schemes.

    ‘A new paper by Sondre Båtstrand studies the climate-change positions of electoral manifestos for the conservative parties in nine democracies, and finds the GOP truly stands apart. Opposition to any mitigation of greenhouse-gas emissions, he finds, “is only the case with the U.S. Republican Party, and hence not representative of conservative parties as a party family.”’

    http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/09/whys-gop-only-science-denying-party-on-earth.html

    Science, who needs it! Just gimme another gun and I’ll fight off any climate changes.

  10. When climate change affects our favorite wine, that’s when this gets serious. “We’re not so different, you and me.” Dr. Evil.

  11. Climate can go up or down. Some call it change and some loosely call it symbiotic. Some things on Earth go up and then down. The climate change deniers will deny that volcanoes erupt. Others will say that an eruption was caused by tintillation. Others by coitus interruptus. Or as someone on the blog said “Pull out now like your father should have.”

  12. Wow how shocking. The most shocking thing would be if NASA was actually telling the truth about this. It might be a first. The following video really P*ssed me off. Will it affect you the same way?

    NASA Releases First ‘Full View’ Of Earth Since Apollo 1972
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRNmKjc3KyY

    Conspiracy Theorist; Someone who questions KNOWN liars.

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