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From that blog: Keep in mind that it took from the dawn of the industrial age until last October to reach the first 1.0 degree Celsius, and we’ve come as much
by mkesper 11y ago
From that blog:
Keep in mind that it took from the dawn of the industrial age until last October to reach the first 1.0 degree Celsius, and we’ve come as much as an extra 0.4 degrees further in just the last five months.
As of Thursday morning, it appears that average temperatures across the Northern Hemisphere have breached the 2 degrees Celsius above “normal” mark for the first time in recorded history, and likely the first time since human civilization began thousands of years ago.
- barney54 11y agoWe are in the middle of a powerful El Niño. Let's see where global temperatures are in 6 months when El Niño fades.
- tremon 11y agoprobably even warmer: The month did not break the record for hottest month, since that is only likely to happen during a northern hemisphere summer, when most of the world’s land mass heats up.
- hackuser 11y agoEl Ninos have been occurring for (thousands? millions? billions?) of years, yet nothing like February ever happened before.
- writtles 11y agoI didn't realize the scope of our data went back that far!
- Nutmog 11y ago"highest in recorded history" is quite a misleading statement. What if used daily measurements instead? Maybe the peak would have been some other time. What if you looked at specific places, their peaks would all be at different times, and many would be wildly far from that baseline by tens of degrees C. What if you averaged over a whole year instead of just a month? This peak will surely flatten out if you do that. What if you averaged over several years or any other time period? So it's not as if people haven't experienced this type of climate before. We didn't even know we'd had it until the satellite told us! That's how hard it is to notice. Yet we easily notice the difference in local temperature from day to day because the swings are much more massive.
- ttctciyf 11y agoWell, from http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/03/01/february_2016_s_shocking_global_warming_temperature_record.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/03/01/february_... and quoted in Baez's blog. Thursday in "As of Thursday morning" referring to Thu Mar 3, it seems.