2015 Likely to Be Hottest Year Ever Recorded

[futurecurrents]

2015 Likely to Be Hottest Year Ever Recorded

Global temperatures are running far above last year’s record-setting level, all but guaranteeing that 2015 will be the hottest year in the historical record — and undermining political claims that global warming had somehow stopped.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the American agency that tracks worldwide temperatures, announced Wednesday that last month had been the hottest September on record, and in fact took the biggest leap above the previous September that any month has displayed since 1880, when tracking began at a global scale. The agency also announced that the January-to-September period had been the hottest such span on the books.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/22/sc...T.nav=top-news

 

[Tsing Tao]

Woohoo! Break out the lotion!

 

[futurecurrents]

Earlier this year, the global warmth contributed to a spring heat wave in India and Pakistan that killed many people, possibly several thousand, with temperatures hitting 118 degrees in parts of India. The effects on the natural world have also been severe, with extreme ocean temperatures bleaching coral reefs around the world, and many of them likely to suffer lasting damage.

 

[gwb-trading]

Yeah... whatever... we are all burning up...

 

[Tsing Tao]

Earlier this year, the global warmth contributed to a spring heat wave in India and Pakistan that killed many people, possibly several thousand, with temperatures hitting 118 degrees in parts of India. The effects on the natural world have also been severe, with extreme ocean temperatures bleaching coral reefs around the world, and many of them likely to suffer lasting damage.

Ban heat!

 

[futurecurrents]

Ban heat!

What are you going to do with all that heat already out there?

 

[gwb-trading]

What are you going to do with all that heat already out there?

We will just host a heat-buyback program to purchase all of that existing heat. Surely that will cure the global warming problem.

 

[blah12345678]

In other words, the data for 2015 will be manipulated to a greater degree than in any other year.

Thanks for the heads up on the forthcoming fraud!

 

[futurecurrents]

In other words, the data for 2015 will be manipulated to a greater degree than in any other year.

Thanks for the heads up on the forthcoming fraud!

Yes of course, because that's what scientists do.

 

[lawrence-lugar]

This doesn't surprise me, that much.

Particularly August, September, and October...felt like one really long heatwave. -- it was miserably muggy and sticky and humid for a while over here in San Diego.

usually there's only like a week or two of horribly humid weather...but this year really stretched out much longer.