Climate Myth... 1934 - hottest year on record Steve McIntyre noticed a strange discontinuity in US temperature data, occurring around January 2000. McIntyre notified NASA which acknowledged the problem as an 'oversight' that would be fixed in the next data refresh. As a result, "The warmest year on US record is now 1934. 1998 (long trumpeted by the media as record-breaking) moves to second place." (Daily Tech). The year 1934 was a very hot year in the United States, ranking fourth behind 2012, 2006, and 1998. However, global warming takes into account temperatures over the entire planet. The U.S.'s land area accounts for only 2% of the earth's total surface area. Despite the U.S. heat in 1934, the year was not so hot over the rest of the planet, and is barely holding onto a place in the hottest 50 years in the global rankings (today it ranks 49th). Climate change skeptics like to point to 1934 in the U.S. as proof that recent hot years are not unusual. However, this is another example of "cherry-picking" a single fact that supports a claim, while ignoring the rest of the data. Globally, the ten hottest years on record have all occurred since 1998, with 2005 and 2010 as the hottest. The fact that there were hot years in some parts of the world in the past is not an argument against climate change. There will always be regional temperature variations as well as variations from year to year. These happened in the past, and they will continue. The problem with climate change is that on average, when looking at the entire world, the long term trend shows an unmistakable increase in global surface temperatures, in a way that is likely to dramatically alter the planet.
It was a joke, dude. You really need to chill out on this topic. I can literally feel you seething every time someone posts. I should have posted "It was the hottest year on Uranus". Maybe then you'd have gotten it?
FC, I'm sorry, you know I agree with you on the overall trend and the reasoning behind it. But our deniers have you dead to rights on the emotional facet. If the observations are correct, and I think they are, there is no reason to get excited. Aside from that, please keep up the good work. : )
its actually the 5th warmest on land. now we are mixing and matching records to find the heat. we are having an el nino... so of course the ocean is warm its been warming since the last ice age and for the last over 100 years. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2014/10 Global Highlights The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for October 2014 was the highest on record for October, at 0.74°C (1.33°F) above the 20th century average of 14.0°C (57.1°F). The global land surface temperature was 1.05°C (1.89°F) above the 20th century average of 9.3°C (48.7°F)—the fifth highest for October on record. For the ocean, the October global sea surface temperature was 0.62°C (1.12°F) above the 20thcentury average of 15.9°C (60.6°F) and the highest for October on record. The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for the January–October period (year-to-date) was 0.68°C (1.22°F) above the 20th century average of 14.1°C (57.4°F). The first ten months of 2014 were the warmest such period on record.
this whole thing is getting really old. The only question, the only debate should be, "How much does man made co2 contribute to global warming?"
studies have shown us the sun seems to warm the oceans and underground volcanoes seem to warm the oceans. I have not seen any science saying co2 causes warm oceans --- do you have any. The science says that the historical records show that land temps and co2 levels trail ocean temps... which makes sense since as oceans warm they release co2