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if the climate is warming isn't every month going to be the hottest month?

• burkaman 3y ago
  No, it's not going to be a perfectly straight line. Temperatures will trend upwards, but some years will be below that line and not record-breaking.
• mjhay 3y ago
  "If the climate is warming then why is it snowing right now?" You've got to come up with better material than that. That's a vintage 2000's denialist gotcha.
  • chasd00 3y ago
    that's not what i was saying. If temperature is going up then every day/week/month is warmer than the previous. It's a tongue-in-cheek way of saying I don't see how July being the hottest month on record would be surprising or newsworthy given the current climate trends.
• olddustytrail 3y ago
  Actually you're kind of correct. Our measurement of the planet isn't complete. We don't have the ability to measure the movement of every molecule and get a perfect temperature measurement. So imagine all that extra energy swimming around. If it gets pushed into the deep ocean we have no way to measure that, but after a while it gets pushed to the surface and it looks like the temperature spiked as it also warms the atmosphere. So the temperature at the moment is actually always increasing but we have to average it over a longer period of time to iron out the gaps in our measurements.