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except that temperatures dropped in June by a large amount after El Nino started to wane. The La Nina that is coming could once again stall the "warming". Let a

except that temperatures dropped in June by a large amount after El Nino started to wane. The La Nina that is coming could once again stall the "warming". Let alone, the warmest title is for years since 1979, its not like we have satellite data that is accurate and going back that long. We do however have drought data including some good numbers out of China that shows clear cycles in weather for centuries. So long story short, we don't know why and we need to quit acting other wise and put more effort into correcting models so that they are least close to predicting what has occurred over the last few decades of known data. If a model cannot reproduce what has happened it cannot be reliable in predicting what will. How can we not fix them?

Brakenshire 10y ago
The temperature dropped in June in the sense that the rather than being 0.3 degrees warmer than the warmest equivalent month, now it's only 0.2 warmer than the warmest equivalent month ever recorded. That is an odd sort of progress. Also, the records don't go back to 1979, most go back to the start of the instrumental record in the 1880's. And satellite data isn't a panacea, the process of getting from the direct measurements to a temperature distribution involves a significant amount of processing based on theoretical models, and corrections for factors like orbital decay, and different satellites and processing methodologies have historically shown a lot of disagreement. It's all useful data, but it's not as if satellites are perfect and everything that comes before is worthless.