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All the global temperature records broken in 2019, so far

11 points by reddotX 7y ago

godshatter 7y ago
Could someone point me to a website that has a simple list of land/sea global temperatures aggregated by month? You would think with all the "blah-blah month of blah-blah on record" articles someone would point to one. I'm asking because the claim "July: Passed August 2016 at the hottest-ever month on record by 0.14ºF, according to the NOAA and Europe's Copernicus Climate Service", which is sourced from the NOAA press release, conflicts with the global satellite data record: https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/2019/july2019/tlt_201907_bar.png https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/2019/july2019/tlt_201907_b..., which shows that July is not the hottest-ever month on record (although it may be the hottest July on record). The claim that July is the hottest month on record is looking at land-only global temperature data, so it would be nice if there was a site with land/sea/both broken out by month. My DDG-fu must be weak, because I haven't been able to find one. Edit: it could also be differences between satellite and ground-based temperature readings. I'd be surprised if they are that far off, though.
- godshatter 7y ago
  I found this page: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201907/supplemental/page-1 https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201907/supplemental/pa... which shows the global land and sea temperatures for the ten hottest years and how July 2019 compares to them. According to this chart, July is not the hottest month or even the hottest July, so the claim that July is the hottest month on record must be talking only about global land temperatures. I wish they would have put this in context instead of trying for a click-bait type headline.
- godshatter 7y ago
  Why the downvotes? I just want to find out exactly what the situation is so that I know how much I should or should not worry about it.
- dannyz 7y ago
  You can try looking at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/global/time-series https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/global/time-series. The specific claim that July is the warmest month ever might be due to the fact that July is the warmest month of the year, so even though the anomaly isn't as high it was still the warmest month.
badrabbit 7y ago
Does anyone know how livable it would be in the next 3-5 decades? I wonder how much innovation will be catalyzed as a result of this.

11 points by reddotX 7y ago

Could someone point me to a website that has a simple list of land/sea global temperatures aggregated by month? You would think with all the "blah-blah month of blah-blah on record" articles someone would point to one. I'm asking because the claim "July: Passed August 2016 at the hottest-ever month on record by 0.14ºF, according to the NOAA and Europe's Copernicus Climate Service", which is sourced from the NOAA press release, conflicts with the global satellite data record: https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/2019/july2019/tlt_201907_bar.png https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/2019/july2019/tlt_201907_b..., which shows that July is not the hottest-ever month on record (although it may be the hottest July on record). The claim that July is the hottest month on record is looking at land-only global temperature data, so it would be nice if there was a site with land/sea/both broken out by month. My DDG-fu must be weak, because I haven't been able to find one. Edit: it could also be differences between satellite and ground-based temperature readings. I'd be surprised if they are that far off, though.

godshatter 7y ago
I found this page: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201907/supplemental/page-1 https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201907/supplemental/pa... which shows the global land and sea temperatures for the ten hottest years and how July 2019 compares to them. According to this chart, July is not the hottest month or even the hottest July, so the claim that July is the hottest month on record must be talking only about global land temperatures. I wish they would have put this in context instead of trying for a click-bait type headline.
godshatter 7y ago
Why the downvotes? I just want to find out exactly what the situation is so that I know how much I should or should not worry about it.
dannyz 7y ago
You can try looking at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/global/time-series https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/global/time-series. The specific claim that July is the warmest month ever might be due to the fact that July is the warmest month of the year, so even though the anomaly isn't as high it was still the warmest month.

badrabbit 7y ago

Does anyone know how livable it would be in the next 3-5 decades? I wonder how much innovation will be catalyzed as a result of this.