It's hot everywhere, all over the world

[Northy]

record temperatures again

home.bt.com/news/worldnews/world-breaks-heat-record-again-11363921385149

The globe is on a hot streak, setting a heat record last month for the second month in a row.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said last month's average global temperature was 61.2F (16.2C), which is 1.3F higher than the 20th century average. It beat 2010's old record by one-twentieth of a degree.

While a twentieth does not sound like much, in temperature records it is like winning a horse race by several lengths, said NOAA climate monitoring chief Derek Arndt.

And that's only part of it. The world's oceans not only broke a monthly heat record at 62.7F (17C), but it was the hottest the oceans have been for any month, Mr Arndt said.

He added that the June and May records were driven by unusually hot seas, especially the Pacific and Indian oceans.

Heat records in June broke on every continent but Antarctica, especially in New Zealand, northern South America, Greenland, central Africa and southern Asia.

The United States had only its 33rd hottest June.

All 12 of the world's monthly heat records have been set after 1997, more than half in the last decade. All the global cold monthly records were set before 1917.

With a likely El Nino this year - the warming of the tropical Pacific which influences the world's weather and increases global temperatures - it is starting to look like another extra warm year, said University of Arizona climate scientist Jonathan Overpeck.

The first six months of this year were the third warmest on record, coming behind 2010 and 1998, according to NOAA

Global temperature records go back to 1880 and this is the 352nd hotter-than-average month in a row.

"This is what global warming looks like," Mr Overpeck said. "Not record hot everywhere all the time, but certainly a reflection that the odds of record hot are going up everywhere around the planet."

[harrysburrow]

It's bloody hot in our office - especially when the ladies start dickin about with the air con!

[craig67]

Wasn't there a sci-fi called the day 'The Day the Earth caught fire'?

[Deleted]

Whilst all this data is probably correct, there is still no conclusive evidence that it has anything to do with man. I think it's far more likely to be a natural shift in the earths environment. It's not fixed and temperature variations are the norm, not the exception.

The earth has had at least one ice age. Whose fault was that? The woolly mammoths? I don't accept that global warming is entirely, or indeed slightly down to mankind.

I blame Kitson.

[britsabroad]

Jul 22, 2014 4:38:17 GMT @************** said:

Whilst all this data is probably correct, there is still no conclusive evidence that it has anything to do with man. I think it's far more likely to be a natural shift in the earths environment. It's not fixed and temperature variations are the norm, not the exception.

The earth has had at least one ice age. Whose fault was that? The woolly mammoths? I don't accept that global warming is entirely, or indeed slightly down to mankind.

I blame Kitson.

But you cant tax or make money off natural variations.

[Deleted]

Jul 22, 2014 6:10:18 GMT britsabroad said:

Jul 22, 2014 4:38:17 GMT @************** said:

Whilst all this data is probably correct, there is still no conclusive evidence that it has anything to do with man. I think it's far more likely to be a natural shift in the earths environment. It's not fixed and temperature variations are the norm, not the exception.

The earth has had at least one ice age. Whose fault was that? The woolly mammoths? I don't accept that global warming is entirely, or indeed slightly down to mankind.

I blame Kitson.

But you cant tax or make money off natural variations.

Dead right. It wouldn't suit the European Parliament either. That's a proper balls up.

[Deleted]

Jul 22, 2014 4:38:17 GMT @************** said:

Whilst all this data is probably correct, there is still no conclusive evidence that it has anything to do with man. I think it's far more likely to be a natural shift in the earths environment. It's not fixed and temperature variations are the norm, not the exception.

The earth has had at least one ice age. Whose fault was that? The woolly mammoths? I don't accept that global warming is entirely, or indeed slightly down to mankind.

I blame Kitson.

In actual fact ************** ,the Earth has experienced at least five Ice ages over the last 2,500, 000,000 years More are likely in the future

[Deleted]

Jul 22, 2014 4:38:17 GMT @************** said:

Whilst all this data is probably correct, there is still no conclusive evidence that it has anything to do with man. I think it's far more likely to be a natural shift in the earths environment. It's not fixed and temperature variations are the norm, not the exception.

The earth has had at least one ice age. Whose fault was that? The woolly mammoths? I don't accept that global warming is entirely, or indeed slightly down to mankind.

I blame Kitson.

There is conclusive evidence that it has everything to do with man but I am too fucking lazy and embarrassed to expand.

[Deleted]

Jul 22, 2014 4:38:17 GMT @************** said:

Whilst all this data is probably correct, there is still no conclusive evidence that it has anything to do with man. I think it's far more likely to be a natural shift in the earths environment. It's not fixed and temperature variations are the norm, not the exception.

The earth has had at least one ice age. Whose fault was that? The woolly mammoths? I don't accept that global warming is entirely, or indeed slightly down to mankind.

I blame Kitson.

A lot of it is to do with the rotation of the Earth on it's axis , the variance of angles in which sunlight is reflected on to the polar caps produces periods where the ice caps melt as they are at present and at lower angles the temperature cools down allowing the ice caps to increase again , this takes place over a periodic cycle of about 40,000 years ...global warming periods in the Earth' s history will come and go as will the equally colder Glacial periods , eventually over a period of about a million years there will be another Ice age , so you see global warming is not something that has just occurred in the last few decades , it's a re-occuring phenomena  , but we may well have speeded up the process on this occasion  due to our activities over the last fifty years or so....

[Deleted]

Jul 22, 2014 17:53:19 GMT @bisphampotter said:

Jul 22, 2014 4:38:17 GMT @************** said:

Whilst all this data is probably correct, there is still no conclusive evidence that it has anything to do with man. I think it's far more likely to be a natural shift in the earths environment. It's not fixed and temperature variations are the norm, not the exception.

The earth has had at least one ice age. Whose fault was that? The woolly mammoths? I don't accept that global warming is entirely, or indeed slightly down to mankind.

I blame Kitson.

A lot of it is to do with the rotation of the Earth on it's axis , the variance of angles in which sunlight is reflected on to the polar caps produces periods where the ice caps melt as they are at present and at lower angles the temperature cools down allowing the ice caps to increase again , this takes place over a periodic cycle of about 40,000 years ...global warming periods in the Earth' s history will come and go as will the equally colder Glacial periods , eventually over a period of about a million years there will be another Ice age , so you see global warming is not something that has just occurred in the last few decades , it's a re-occuring phenomena  , but we may well have speeded up the process on this occasion  due to our activities over the last fifty years or so....

That's all true and global warming is apart of an ever changing cycle of events as you have described. It's not totally down to mans effect on the planet but there is now evidence that there is a direct link to the speeding up of the process . Some of this evidence is already in the public domain but there is lot more to come that currently isn't. A lot of this work is being sponsored by American companies using British scientists at several universities that specialise in collating this information in a way that governments across the world can analyse the findings. There is one research project being currently done at the moment which is due out in 2 & half years time that will change the way the whole world looks at things .It is being partly funded by NASA and one or two other global corporations. Exciting stuff...

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Jul 22, 2014 17:53:19 GMT @bisphampotter said:

Jul 22, 2014 4:38:17 GMT @************** said:

Whilst all this data is probably correct, there is still no conclusive evidence that it has anything to do with man. I think it's far more likely to be a natural shift in the earths environment. It's not fixed and temperature variations are the norm, not the exception.

The earth has had at least one ice age. Whose fault was that? The woolly mammoths? I don't accept that global warming is entirely, or indeed slightly down to mankind.

I blame Kitson.

A lot of it is to do with the rotation of the Earth on it's axis , the variance of angles in which sunlight is reflected on to the polar caps produces periods where the ice caps melt as they are at present and at lower angles the temperature cools down allowing the ice caps to increase again , this takes place over a periodic cycle of about 40,000 years ...global warming periods in the Earth' s history will come and go as will the equally colder Glacial periods , eventually over a period of about a million years there will be another Ice age , so you see global warming is not something that has just occurred in the last few decades , it's a re-occuring phenomena  , but we may well have speeded up the process on this occasion  due to our activities over the last fifty years or so....

So basically Bish, it comes down to this.

[Deleted]

Jul 22, 2014 17:20:00 GMT @mumf said:

Jul 22, 2014 4:38:17 GMT @************** said:

Whilst all this data is probably correct, there is still no conclusive evidence that it has anything to do with man. I think it's far more likely to be a natural shift in the earths environment. It's not fixed and temperature variations are the norm, not the exception.

The earth has had at least one ice age. Whose fault was that? The woolly mammoths? I don't accept that global warming is entirely, or indeed slightly down to mankind.

I blame Kitson.

There is conclusive evidence that it has everything to do with man but I am too fucking lazy and embarrassed to expand.

Where is this conclusive evidence Mumf? Stuffed down the front of your saggy old Y-fronts no doubt? 

[Deleted]

Jul 24, 2014 12:18:50 GMT @************** said:

Jul 22, 2014 17:53:19 GMT @bisphampotter said:

A lot of it is to do with the rotation of the Earth on it's axis , the variance of angles in which sunlight is reflected on to the polar caps produces periods where the ice caps melt as they are at present and at lower angles the temperature cools down allowing the ice caps to increase again , this takes place over a periodic cycle of about 40,000 years ...global warming periods in the Earth' s history will come and go as will the equally colder Glacial periods , eventually over a period of about a million years there will be another Ice age , so you see global warming is not something that has just occurred in the last few decades , it's a re-occuring phenomena  , but we may well have speeded up the process on this occasion  due to our activities over the last fifty years or so....

So basically Bish, it comes down to this.

In a nutshell .....

[heisenberg88]

I hate this hot weather. Can't be doing with it.

[neoisd1]

Jul 22, 2014 4:38:17 GMT @************** said:

Whilst all this data is probably correct, there is still no conclusive evidence that it has anything to do with man. I think it's far more likely to be a natural shift in the earths environment. It's not fixed and temperature variations are the norm, not the exception.

The earth has had at least one ice age. Whose fault was that? The woolly mammoths? I don't accept that global warming is entirely, or indeed slightly down to mankind.

I blame Kitson.

Have a read of This
Climate change will fuck this planet up and our children will hate us for standing by and allowing it to happen.

[bosanac]

Jul 24, 2014 16:37:40 GMT neoisd1 said:

Jul 22, 2014 4:38:17 GMT @************** said:

Whilst all this data is probably correct, there is still no conclusive evidence that it has anything to do with man. I think it's far more likely to be a natural shift in the earths environment. It's not fixed and temperature variations are the norm, not the exception.

The earth has had at least one ice age. Whose fault was that? The woolly mammoths? I don't accept that global warming is entirely, or indeed slightly down to mankind.

I blame Kitson.

Have a read of This
Climate change will fuck this planet up and our children will hate us for standing by and allowing it to happen.

Surely, as you've obviously read about the stuff, you mean grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand children?

Mind you, I'm not trying to deny global warming at all, it's just...who gives a shit about those space-green ladies-banging-humanbot-cyborgs anyway?!

[Billybigbollox]

Great isn't it? I love sunny weather.

[jonah77]

I've always believed scientists when they come out with various theories and explanations but for some reason I think they're talking balls about climate change.
There's no reason for me to believe this,I just do.Part of me can't help thinking that if we were doing that much damage to the eco system then nature(or God)would stop us by some sort of epidemic or natural disaster.
We evolved our superior brains for a reason and the rise of mankind and all the associated changes it brings is just part of the earths natural evolution.In other words it's just destined to be so dunner worry and get on with it.

[raven]

What about the Canadian tundra ?

[starkiller]

Jul 24, 2014 16:37:40 GMT neoisd1 said:

Jul 22, 2014 4:38:17 GMT @************** said:

Whilst all this data is probably correct, there is still no conclusive evidence that it has anything to do with man. I think it's far more likely to be a natural shift in the earths environment. It's not fixed and temperature variations are the norm, not the exception.

The earth has had at least one ice age. Whose fault was that? The woolly mammoths? I don't accept that global warming is entirely, or indeed slightly down to mankind.

I blame Kitson.

Have a read of This
Climate change will fuck this planet up and our children will hate us for standing by and allowing it to happen.

New Scientist is bought and paid for propaganda.

This unusual weather we are having in the UK used to be called Summer.


I'm protesting against the sun with a beer...

[stokiekey]

It's amusing that some people think the human race is that important that we can actually affect Mother Nature herself. The world was here way before us and was fine and will still be here long long after we're gone. As self important as some people think they are, every single creature on this planet is merely just a tiny piece of bacteria and nature would have rid of us all if worst comes to worst, whether we drive our cars, chop down trees or brush our teeth while excessively running the tap or not.