18 December 2012
NOAA Announces Astounding Planetary Heat Record
Posted by Dan Satterfield
From NOAA NCDC
NASA data shows that November 2012 globally was the second warmest on record, surpassed only by 2010. NOAA keeps a second record and has November 2012 as 5th warmest. NOAA also announced that this past climatological autumn (Sep-Nov) was the second warmest on record and that this is (astonishingly) the 333 month in a row with global temps. above the 20th century average.
The USA is on track for the warmest year on record and globally it looks like 2012 will be at least the eighth warmest on record. what is even more astounding is the ratio of record highs to record lows for the past year. Record highs have been outpacing record lows by two to one for several years now but in 2012 the ratio reached nearly 5 to 1!
From NOAA.
At the American Geophysical Union Meeting two weeks ago in San Francisco, Ray Pierre Humbert explained how we know WHY this is happening (and how we know it is not a natural cycle). I highly recommend watching it. (Especially my fellow broadcast meteorologists.)
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.
Andrew said on 24 December 2012
If one believes in a Buddhists view, stay present and accept that humans are now powerless.
Andrew said on 24 December 2012
Are copies of this research being saved as hard copies and stored in vaults for intelligent life forms to decipher when humans are gone?