Hottest January on Record
Steven L. Taylor
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Saturday, February 20, 2016
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Via the DMN: Phil Plait: Last month was the hottest January on record — by a lot.
January 2016 was the hottest January globally since records began in 1880. And it didn’t just edge out the previous record holder for January, it destroyed it.
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Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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It’s times like this that I’m glad I’m old and don’t have any grandchildren.
And the 4 months on record with the largest deviations from historical norms are the last 4 months.
“January 2016 also marked the ninth consecutive month that the monthly temperature record was been broken and the fourteenth consecutive month (since December 2014) that the monthly global temperature ranked among the three warmest for its respective month in the NOAA database.”
Oh, that global warming…
Large part of that is we’re having a massive el nino immediately after a long series of la ninas (I saw a talk where Michael Mann showed that la ninas may be more common when the Earth is warming). But yeah, global warming playing a big part too.
And, yes, even the satellite data is showing it.
I guess we can add Phil’s name to the list of conspirators.
Ah-ha!!! Now we know why the Chinese have tanked their economy.
@Guarneri:
WTF?
@Ron Beasley: i do, so they’ll have warmer weather for a spell- and then it’ll change again….jezzus. people your age were saying the same crap in the 70’s, and we’re still here.
@bill:
You can’t possibly really be that ignorant, can you? Gotta be a troll…
Hmm, I can’t figure out where all the “pause” people are today …
@Ron Beasley: Actually, I wish you did have grandchildren. I’m sure I’d rather have them in control of the future than a bunch of Duggars.
@DrDaveT: Well, our December was warm, but January was colder, and February was very cold and wet. Depends on where you are.
@Tyrell:
Yes, and some slaves were actually treated quite humanely. I see your point.
@DrDaveT: Motivated reasoning. And Bill seems very motivated. After all, Sen Inhoffe (R-Koch) was once able to make a snowball in February, so there.
@DrDaveT: Sadly, about 45% of the population, including apparently most of the U.S.’s media and business elite, think the same thing.
“…A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest.” The Boxer, Simon & Garfunkel
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” Upton Sinclair
Lots of people’s salaries, from the American Enterprise Institute to Exxon to Fox News and everything in between depend on not accepting the facts of global warming. As Senator Grassley said in the context of another debate, they “don’t care what the history books say about them, they have a job to do.”
@Hal_10000: “Large part of that is we’re having a massive el nino immediately after a long series of la ninas (I saw a talk where Michael Mann showed that la ninas may be more common when the Earth is warming). But yeah, global warming playing a big part too.”
Remember that 1998 was a serious El Nino year (you can see it in the temperature trends as a spike).
@bill: “i do, so they’ll have warmer weather for a spell- and then it’ll change again….jezzus. people your age were saying the same crap in the 70’s, and we’re still here.”
Scientist were not saying things like that in the 1970’s; this has actually been studied.
@Franklin: :Hmm, I can’t figure out where all the “pause” people are today …”
It is surprising; the obvious thing to do is to declare that Nothing Counts Right Now Because El Nino.
That both buys several more years, and earns double points for dishonesty, because denialists have been using the 1998 El Nino for ~15 years.