July was the hottest month worldwide since records began being kept in 1880, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced Thursday. The temperature in July, when averaged for all locations around the planet, was 61.86 degrees, topping the previous hottest months of July 1998 and July 2010. July is typically the hottest month of the year. Much of western and central Europe was extremely hot. Austria sweltered to its hottest month ever recorded in the country's 249-year period of records. Spain had its hottest month on record, while France had its third-warmest month. Germany and the United Kingdom both broke all-time July heat records. One city in Iran, Bandar Mahshahr, set one the most extreme heat records ever measured in the world on July 31. According to media reports, the air temperature of 115, combined with a dew point of 90 degrees, created a heat index of 165, NOAA said. In Africa, July's average temperature was the second highest, behind only July 2002, NOAA said. The United States was one of the few spots that didn't see the extreme heat, along with portions of western Asia. The USA did have a slightly warmer-than-average July, but no states set a record high, according to NOAA. Worldwide, the combined average temperature over land and ocean surfaces for July 2015 was 1.46 degrees above the 20th-century average of 60.4 degrees, NOAA reported. This meshes with data from NASA and the Japan Meteorological Administrationreleased earlier this week. NASA said temperatures in July 2015 beat the previous record in July 2011 by .036 degrees. Last month also marked the 39th consecutive July — and 365th consecutive month — with a global temperature that was above average. NOAA climate scientist Jake Crouch told the Associated Press that 2015 will likely end up the hottest year on record, topping last year. Crouch said this reaffirms that the Earth is warming, with a boost this year from an El Niño warming of the Pacific Ocean. "Global temperatures during July and year-to-date both broke previous records," University of Arizona climate scientist Jonathan Overpeck said in a tweet, noting the combination of a strong El Niño and man-made global warming led to the extreme heat. http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/08/20/july-record-warm/32045131/ The shit is starting to hit the fan. Hold on to your hats and wear a disposable raincoat.
In related news..... Global warming caused by human emissions has most likely intensified the drought in California by roughly 15 to 20 percent, scientists said Thursday, warning that future dry spells in the state are almost certain to be worse than this one as the world continues to heat up. The paper echoes a growing body of research that has come to similar conclusions, but scientists not involved in the work described it as more thorough than any previous effort, because it analyzed nearly every possible combination of data on temperature, rainfall, wind speed and other factors that could be influencing the severity of the drought. The research, said David B. Lobell, a Stanford University climate scientist, is “probably the best I’ve seen on this question.” A report this week by researchers at the University of California, Davis, projected that the drought would cost the California economy some $2.7 billion this year. Much of that pain is being felt in the state’s huge farming industry, which has been forced to idle a half-million acres and has seen valuable crops like almond trees and grape vines die. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/21/s...column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news Action on greenhouse gas emissions is just good economic sense. We can pay a little now or a lot more later. And then there is the issue of species and human life loss. How is that reduced to monetary figures?
funny, I didn't notice it that much. Out where I live, it has been a very pleasant summer with plenty of rain almost every week.
I will admit that July was very hot in many countries. I don't think this is in any way tied to man-made CO2.
I notice it in the woods that I walk. Animals that were common have migrated north, and animals we never saw as kids are starting to also move farther north into our woods. So there is no doubt in my mind my local earth is warming. I just didn't notice it being unusually hot this summer. As a matter of fact it has been just about perfect. High 85 Low at night 65, rain at least once a week, all summer long. The kind of summers you dream of if you are growing corn.
Oh of course not. We all know that a 40% increase in an important greenhouse gas will have no effect. That's just good right wing thimking.
Well then pardon me. I have misread you. But of course the temps are just rising due to cosmic rays right? No way that little ol man can do anything.
Correlation (especially when the CO2 is lagging) is not causation. And can you point to one peer-reviewed scientific paper that conclusively states that any global temperature is caused by man-made CO2? Just one paper, eh? AGW is just an unproven theory. Every year more data comes out which disproves it.
More phony data! This time at Washington, DC Reagan National airport. ========================= August 20, 2015 The Latest Climate Kerfuffle ByPatrick Michaels Are political considerations superseding scientific ones at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration? When confronted with an obviously broken weather station that was reading way too hot, they replaced the faulty sensor — but refused to adjust the bad readings it had already taken. And when dealing with "the pause" in global surface temperatures that is in its 19th year, the agency threw away satellite-sensed sea-surface temperatures, substituting questionable data that showed no pause. more at: http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2015/08/20/the_latest_climate_kerfuffle_1397.html