World temperatures fall short of US heat records in 2012

[koalabear]

While the U.S. was smashing heat marks last year, the world as a whole barely slipped into the top 10 hottest years on record, two American science agencies said Tuesday.

The global average temperature for last year would have been a record 15 years ago, an indication that what used to be unusual heat is more commonplace.

Now it merely ranks 10th, something climate scientists shows man-made climate change in action.

Last year's average was 58 degrees Fahrenheit (14.5 degrees Celsius), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. That's a full degree above the 20th-century average of 57 F (13.9 C).

The hottest was 2010 when the average temperature was 58.2 degrees (14.6 degrees Celsius). NOAA records go back to 1880.

http://news.msn.com/science-technology/world-temperatures-fall-short-of-us-heat-records-in-2012

 

[shoulderblade]

Last year's average was 58 degrees Fahrenheit (14.5 degrees Celsius), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. That's a full degree above the 20th-century average of 57 F (13.9 C).

The hottest was 2010 when the average temperature was 58.2 degrees (14.6 degrees Celsius). NOAA records go back to 1880.

A fourth group out of the University of Alabama at Huntsville looks at temperatures measured by satellites and only goes back to 1979, but is preferred by climate skeptics. That measurement ranked 2012 as the ninth warmest on record and notes that 11 of the 12 hottest years in their dataset have occurred since 2001.

Why is there so much debate and suspicion about global warming. The difference between a century average and a high is only 1.8 F and older numbers are somewhat suspect. Toss in vested intrests and research competition and you have nquite a mess.

 

[trysail]

You now have the über-warmist head of NASA-GISS, James E. Hansen, publicly admitting that there hasn't been any warming for at least a decade.

In fact, according to most databases, there hasn't been any warming for nigh-on sixteen (16) years.


http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2013/20130115_Temperature2012.pdf



See: http://judithcurry.com/2013/01/16/hansen-on-the-standstill/ for Dr. Judith Curry's take on Hansen's statement.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Wow, even Koala is starting to come around to this whole global warming thing.

 

[koalabear]

Wow, even Koala is starting to come around to this whole global warming thing.

It's been warming since the ice age ended, even a fool like you should know that.

 

[Sean Renaud]

It's been warming since the ice age ended, even a fool like you should know that.

Sorry koala. That's not true. You should take a few minutes out of your life and look up the Middle Ages.

 

[koalabear]

Sorry koala. That's not true. You should take a few minutes out of your life and look up the Middle Ages.

You are stupid. Fact.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Greenland is called Greenland because it was Green when it was discovered by vikings. It's currently covered in ice. Fact. Sorry Koala. You're a fucking moronic piece of shit without even a cursory understanding of history and pre-history.

 

[koalabear]

Greenland is called Greenland because it was Green when it was discovered by vikings. It's currently covered in ice. Fact. Sorry Koala. You're a fucking moronic piece of shit without even a cursory understanding of history and pre-history.

Still doesn't change the fact that you are stupid.

 

[chillywilly2]

Greenland is called Greenland because it was Green when it was discovered by vikings. It's currently covered in ice. Fact. Sorry Koala. You're a fucking moronic piece of shit without even a cursory understanding of history and pre-history.

It was called Greenland so people would visit there and spend tourist dollars...like, who would ever visit Iceland

Plus, they discovered it in summer

 

[Sean Renaud]

It was called Greenland so people would visit there and spend tourist dollars...like, who would ever visit Iceland

Plus, they discovered it in summer

That was one hell of a long summer. Long enough for them to set up permanent settlements and settle in before slowly dying of starvation not over the course of a year but over the course of a few decades.