Global Warming - 2010 Hottest Year on Record

[naturelover]

Is it hot enough for you yet? Apparently it's going to get hotter in August.

Time to stock up on the ice cream.


http://news.discovery.com/earth/heat...te-change.html

2010 on Track to Be Warmest On Record




THE GIST:

• The average global temperature for 2010 so far is the warmest on record.
• This past June was the warmest June on record worldwide.
• This year's hot temperatures will become the norm as climate change continues.

The sweltering heat baking the eastern United States is part of a global trend. Last month was the warmest June on record, and so far, 2010 is the warmest year ever recorded, according to data released yesterday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.
The data represent an average of surface temperature measurements over both land and oceans worldwide.

These findings and those of other agencies that track global temperatures paint the same picture, said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

"The point of the matter is that global warming has not stopped," he said.



More: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0616134641.htm

Arctic sea ice covered an average of 5.06 million square miles (13.1 million square kilometers) during May. This is 3.7 percent below the 1979-2000 average extent and the ninth-smallest May footprint since records began in 1979. During May 2010, Arctic sea ice melted 50 percent faster than the average May melting rate, according to the National Snow & Ice Data Center.

Antarctic sea ice extent in May was 7.3 percent above the 1979-2000 average, resulting in the fourth largest May extent on record.

Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent during May 2010 was a record low at 4.3 million square kilometers below the long-term average. North America and Eurasia both had record-low snow extents for the month. Northern Hemisphere March-May snow cover extent was fourth smallest on record, while the North American (including Greenland) snow cover extent for spring (March-May) 2010 was the smallest on record.

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[shanzone2001]

Yuck...worse? I have become noctournal as it is! I can't stand the heat. It has been so hot that my kids don't even go swimming until the sun goes down!

[Whisperwindkat]

This summer has actually been cooler for us for the most part. Still hot, but temperatures have been several degrees cooler than last year or the year before. Lots more humidity thought which is making it feel awful, but that has at least given us some pretty steady rain through the summer, instead of 3 months of nothing. I only run my air condition for a couple hours a day and that is really only to keep the moisture levels down in the house. Blessings, Kat

[MushCreek]

There certainly is a lot of hot air being circulated in the discussion about global warming/climate change- maybe that's the root cause?

Regardless of the rest of the world, or the cause(s), but the climate here in FL has definitely changed. Our area was known for afternoon thunderstorms that came through like clockwork in the summer months. For some years now, we just don't get the normal storms. We get rain, but not in the usual manner of years ago. All the old-timers around here remark on the changes, but the TV weather people never comment on it, as if everything is normal. When we don't get the afternoon rain, it is a lot hotter, especially at night. Many days, on my ride into work at 5:30 AM, it will be around 85 degrees or so, and yet historical data shows our 'normal' night time low to be 75 or so. That seems hotter to me!

Oddly enough, this year we had the coldest winter on record here in FL, while the northeast was unusually warm. Something's different.

[JeffreyD]

The problem with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association relies on ground based weater stations. Most of those stations are on or near some type of pavement. That will produce false readings. I can't remeber which org. it was, could be NASA, but i think it was NOAA, had a station where a diesel fire truck used to park with the exhaust aimed diractly at the temperature sensor! Of the over 120 land based stations, about 90 were giving false readings. I'm off to find some links.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/07/1...imate-station/

This is the NOAA site that gives the guide lines on the instalation of weater stations. NOAA clearly did not follow thier own rules!

http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/u...DocumentD0.pdf

Here is a site that documents a lot of the issues with NOAA.

http://www.bobbyshred.com/fools/falsetemps.html


Have fun!

[Sawmill Jim]

We gunna melt When O get's the Crap and Spade passed all will be cool

Till then it's Bush's fault

[Ross]

So far the weathers has been pretty seasonal. Good heat good rain = great corn!

[Cornhusker]

Been pretty seasonal here, even a bit cooler than usual.
We have a warm week ahead of us, in the 90s, but it's July after all.
The Global Warming alarmists always poo poo a cool spell but if it warms up to normal, the sky is falling on them.
Just the people involved and profiting from the GW scam should tell you it's fraud.

[naturelover]

Originally Posted by JeffreyD

The problem with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association relies on ground based weater stations. Most of those stations are on or near some type of pavement. That will produce false readings. I can't remeber which org. it was, could be NASA, but i think it was NOAA, had a station where a diesel fire truck used to park with the exhaust aimed diractly at the temperature sensor! Of the over 120 land based stations, about 90 were giving false readings. I'm off to find some links.

The thing is, records are being set for temperatures all around the world, including places like the poles and in 3rd world countries where they don't have climate recording stations on or near some type of pavement or near vehicles emitting hot exhaust. Don't base everything you believe just on what is happening in North America. Consider the entire globe and readings taken from around the globe.

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[Cornhusker]

Originally Posted by naturelover

The thing is, records are being set for temperatures all around the world, including places like the poles and in 3rd world countries where they don't have climate recording stations on or near some type of pavement or near vehicles emitting hot exhaust. Don't base everything you believe just on what is happening in North America. Consider the entire globe and readings taken from around the globe.

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Look who's profiting from this, and who's pushing it.
It's just another scam by the left to take our money and control our lives.

[ChristyACB]

There are thousands and thousands of land stations. And there are literally hundreds of millions of direct and remote measurements taken and put into each model run at the 0 tau. Polar, equatorial and geosync satellites have each and every pixel put in. All those partner stations in back yards, every buoy...etc.

When you find 90 stations that are getting urban effect, that is just so small as to be nothing. And many stations are reading by elevation now and are on top of buildings, on towers and all over the place. Even planes are measuring this stuff. Ships at sea...the list just goes on and on.

http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/ocean/sst/contour.html

Check out these sst charts. If you look back a few years you'll probably get a bit of a shock. All that "speculation" and "guessing" that the models did saying the temperatures in some parts of the oceans would rise x amount first about 20 years ago? Well...they did. Check out the gulf and east of africa in the south indian ocean. Dead spot on from the 1990 forecast report.

[Sawmill Jim]

Yes and we got lots of gravel around here think maybe this area was once under water Don't know who let it dry up any idea's .Think maybe things have been changing from the start and will continue till the end in spite of people .

[Bearfootfarm]

The average global temperature for 2010 so far is the warmest on record

Wait until the end of the year and see how it averages out.
Winter and Fall are yet to come

Average temperatures for 2010 to date were 1.22 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the 20th-century average, NOAA reported.

[ChristyACB]

Originally Posted by Bearfootfarm

Wait until the end of the year and see how it averages out.
Winter and Fall are yet to come

The averages are taken on a day for day basis. So if they say so far it is averaged up to that date for previous years.

One of the myths about so-called global warming is that it only causes warming. It doesn't. It causes a great shift in the temperature range and precip patterns for the year in most of the temperate zone. Hence, many places get much colder and/or wetter winters, others get drier, still others get hotter and wetter summers and others hot and dry.

There are a good many "sweet" spots around the world. In those places the climate will actually improve as far as humans and their interests are concerned. There were spots like that during the last ice age too that really did help humanity muddle through. North America has a good many of these sweet spots scattered about. We're lucky that our contiguous landmass stretches the way it does in the best zones and our water bodies are placed as they are.

[Lyra]

Originally Posted by Bearfootfarm

Wait until the end of the year and see how it averages out.
Winter and Fall are yet to come

I completely agree with you. Something's not right. We had the worst winter on record but organizations are saying it is the hottest year ever. It doesn't make any sense. So the Ohio Valley is in a weather black hole?

[Sawmill Jim]

There were spots like that during the last ice age too that really did help humanity muddle through. North America has a good many of these sweet spots scattered about

That darn Fred Flintstone an Barney should took better care of their environment

[Bigkat80]

Originally Posted by naturelover

Is it hot enough for you yet? Apparently it's going to get hotter in August.

Time to stock up on the ice cream.


http://news.discovery.com/earth/heat...te-change.html

2010 on Track to Be Warmest On Record




THE GIST:

• The average global temperature for 2010 so far is the warmest on record.
• This past June was the warmest June on record worldwide.
• This year's hot temperatures will become the norm as climate change continues.

The sweltering heat baking the eastern United States is part of a global trend. Last month was the warmest June on record, and so far, 2010 is the warmest year ever recorded, according to data released yesterday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.
The data represent an average of surface temperature measurements over both land and oceans worldwide.

These findings and those of other agencies that track global temperatures paint the same picture, said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

"The point of the matter is that global warming has not stopped," he said.



More: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0616134641.htm

Arctic sea ice covered an average of 5.06 million square miles (13.1 million square kilometers) during May. This is 3.7 percent below the 1979-2000 average extent and the ninth-smallest May footprint since records began in 1979. During May 2010, Arctic sea ice melted 50 percent faster than the average May melting rate, according to the National Snow & Ice Data Center.

Antarctic sea ice extent in May was 7.3 percent above the 1979-2000 average, resulting in the fourth largest May extent on record.

Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent during May 2010 was a record low at 4.3 million square kilometers below the long-term average. North America and Eurasia both had record-low snow extents for the month. Northern Hemisphere March-May snow cover extent was fourth smallest on record, while the North American (including Greenland) snow cover extent for spring (March-May) 2010 was the smallest on record.

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Still Persisting with this ridiculous Global Warming Meme I see....LOL

Guess what LAst Winter was the colderst one on record here.....Its a cycle the earth warms and cools as it always has....no more no less....The science is wrong minded...the attempts at taMPERING WITH THE DATA have doomed this movement to the crackpot theories of history give it up....

[Bigkat80]

IF its warming up perhaps its due to the sun moving closer and closer to the Galactic plane(center alignement to earth) 2012 stuff the mayans say it and the science says its occurring naturally the closer we get to that perfect lineup the more solar radiation is making through the more warm we will be...My guess is it will be hotter by 2012 and then cool off to a ice age after...Nothing anthropogenic about it...we do not affect the solar system and its cycles we endure them as any good parasite does....

[zant]

Alabama has actually been cooler this summer than last....and I don't belong to the religious cult that believes in making algore a billionaire...but stupid people have to have a meaningless cause or their lives are empty.When I see the cultist living in tents using absolutely NO oil/gas products AT ALL...maybe then I'll believe in their sincerity.

[ChristyACB]

Please note I never said it was due to people. We are in a "warming trend" but that isn't proven to be created by humans specifically. Maybe exacerbated, maybe locally advanced, but certainly no way to prove it has any human causality.

But, warming and cooling trends are normal and always going on (one way or the other) however they are never consistent. There will always be sweet spots in every age, whether a warm one or an ice one.

I think it is very telling that people just assumed I was saying it was human caused. Defensive anyone?

Human caused or not, we are in a slight warming trend. Sticking our heads in the sand and not trying to make some adjustments so we humans and the things we depend on don't suffer is just stupid. If we can reduce an urban heat sink or alter a breeze or create homes to be more efficient...why shouldn't we?