July 2015 was the hottest month on modern record
Newsbot @ Thu Aug 20, 2015 10:34 am
Title: July 2015 was the hottest month on modern record
Category: Environmental
Posted By: Delwin
Date: 2015-08-20 10:19:24
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Zipperfish @ Thu Aug 20, 2015 10:34 am
If the PDO has switched to a positive phase, as seems to be indicated, then the we should expect higher average global air temperatures for a few years as the ocean sheds some of its heat. Plus, a moderate to strong El Nino this year will probably make 2015 the warmest on the instrumental record.
N_Fiddledog @ Thu Aug 20, 2015 11:17 am
Well if we're doing prophesy, here's mine.
It's pretty much always going to be the hottest month or year until 2017 when NOAA's phony professor, Tom Karl, joins the unemployment line.
(Karl was referred to as professor for a while based on an honorary degree he received. Dolly Parton has one too)
In the meantime here's what the more reliable satellite temps are saying according to actual, for real PHD Dr. Roy Spencer.
$1:
The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for July, 2015 is +0.18 deg. C, down considerably from the June, 2015 value of +0.33 deg. C
Strong July cooling occurred in the Southern Hemisphere extratropics, with a weak drop in the Northern Hemisphere extratropics. The tropics continue to warm with El Nino conditions there.
Strong July cooling occurred in the Southern Hemisphere extratropics, with a weak drop in the Northern Hemisphere extratropics. The tropics continue to warm with El Nino conditions there.
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2015/08/uah ... 15-0-18-c/
Dr. Dolly's measurements have yet to come in, but it's believed those for the top hemisphere concur with Dr. Karl's as being abnormally high.
Batsy2 @ Thu Aug 20, 2015 11:30 am
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July 2015 was the hottest month on modern record
Bullshit.
martin14 @ Thu Aug 20, 2015 11:32 am
Oh goody, another AGW BS chicken little sky is fall sky is heating the same guys shouting the same crap over and over so I say screw it and go ride my Harley thread for me to ignore. 
BartSimpson @ Thu Aug 20, 2015 11:38 am
Interesting. In California the drought and warm weather (and absence of cloud cover) has led to record harvests in all sectors of agriculture - even in the nut sector which reduced the number of trees due to the drought.
Oh, and just a reminder that weather and climate are two different things.
I say that because I predict that we'll see instances of record cold this winter and the warmists will say that 'weather and climate are not the same!'
In Sacramento we're having a cooler-than-usual summer even though we've had consistently warm temps.
Interestingly, almost all of our "records" for heat are 2006 and older.
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Here is the history of heat in downtown Sacramento since official observations began July 1, 1877.
Hottest day: 114 degrees, July 17, 1925.
Consecutive days over 105 degrees: seven days, August 1990.
Nonconsecutive days over 105 degrees: 10 days, July 1988.
Consecutive days over 100 degrees: 11 days, July 2006.
Hottest summer: 41 days (not consecutive) 100 degrees or higher, 1988.
Notable heat waves: 14 of 16 days over 100 degrees, June 20 through July 5, 1929;
11 of 12 days over 100 degrees, July 21 through Aug. 1, 1980. Notable July months : 17 nonconsecutive days 100 degrees or higher, 2003 and 1988; 16 nonconsecutive days 100 degrees or higher, 1984 and 1931.
Source: National Weather Service
Hottest day: 114 degrees, July 17, 1925.
Consecutive days over 105 degrees: seven days, August 1990.
Nonconsecutive days over 105 degrees: 10 days, July 1988.
Consecutive days over 100 degrees: 11 days, July 2006.
Hottest summer: 41 days (not consecutive) 100 degrees or higher, 1988.
Notable heat waves: 14 of 16 days over 100 degrees, June 20 through July 5, 1929;
11 of 12 days over 100 degrees, July 21 through Aug. 1, 1980. Notable July months : 17 nonconsecutive days 100 degrees or higher, 2003 and 1988; 16 nonconsecutive days 100 degrees or higher, 1984 and 1931.
Source: National Weather Service
Lemmy @ Thu Aug 20, 2015 11:51 am
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July's average temperature was 16.6 Celsius (61.86 degrees Fahrenheit), beating the previous global mark set in 1998 and 2010 by 0.08 C
You can't argue about facts.
DrCaleb @ Thu Aug 20, 2015 11:56 am
N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:
In the meantime here's what the more reliable satellite temps are saying according to actual, for real PHD Dr. Roy Spencer.
And that's why everyone discounts Dr. Spencer; thermometer measurements from the air can never be replicated by satellites. They have to be 'estimated'. Something you oppose, if I recall.
DrCaleb @ Thu Aug 20, 2015 11:57 am
Lemmy Lemmy:
$1:
July's average temperature was 16.6 Celsius (61.86 degrees Fahrenheit), beating the previous global mark set in 1998 and 2010 by 0.08 C
You can't argue about facts.
People will anyhow. Perhaps one day they will see the trend.
ShepherdsDog @ Thu Aug 20, 2015 12:04 pm
It was much hotter the year before they started keeping records 
Thanos @ Thu Aug 20, 2015 12:28 pm
The asteroid strike would be worth just because it would put an end once and for all to this interminably dopey conversation. 
BartSimpson @ Thu Aug 20, 2015 12:59 pm
Lemmy Lemmy:
$1:
July's average temperature was 16.6 Celsius (61.86 degrees Fahrenheit), beating the previous global mark set in 1998 and 2010 by 0.08 C
You can't argue about facts.
It's never stopped you before.
Lemmy @ Thu Aug 20, 2015 1:02 pm
Sorry, what? A Dodge?
Zipperfish @ Thu Aug 20, 2015 2:23 pm
N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:
Well if we're doing prophesy, here's mine.
It's pretty much always going to be the hottest month or year until 2017 when NOAA's phony professor, Tom Karl, joins the unemployment line.
(Karl was referred to as professor for a while based on an honorary degree he received. Dolly Parton has one too)
In the meantime here's what the more reliable satellite temps are saying according to actual, for real PHD Dr. Roy Spencer.
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2015/08/uah ... 15-0-18-c/
Dr. Dolly's measurements have yet to come in, but it's believed those for the top hemisphere concur with Dr. Karl's as being abnormally high.
It's pretty much always going to be the hottest month or year until 2017 when NOAA's phony professor, Tom Karl, joins the unemployment line.
(Karl was referred to as professor for a while based on an honorary degree he received. Dolly Parton has one too)
In the meantime here's what the more reliable satellite temps are saying according to actual, for real PHD Dr. Roy Spencer.
$1:
The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for July, 2015 is +0.18 deg. C, down considerably from the June, 2015 value of +0.33 deg. C
Strong July cooling occurred in the Southern Hemisphere extratropics, with a weak drop in the Northern Hemisphere extratropics. The tropics continue to warm with El Nino conditions there.
Strong July cooling occurred in the Southern Hemisphere extratropics, with a weak drop in the Northern Hemisphere extratropics. The tropics continue to warm with El Nino conditions there.
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2015/08/uah ... 15-0-18-c/
Dr. Dolly's measurements have yet to come in, but it's believed those for the top hemisphere concur with Dr. Karl's as being abnormally high.
I don't know if the UAH temps are more reliable. regardless all temperature records--surface and satellite--show a warming trend, although the UAH dataset is the lowest at around 0.11 deg C decade (whihc incidentally dropped overnight from 0.14 deg C/decade when they released version 6 of their algorithm--better get McKitrick on the case!)
The fact that he refers to an anomaly of +0.18 deg as "strong cooling" makes you wonder too. RSS (again, based ont he same data used by Spender et al.) calaculated an anomaly of 0.75 deg (and the warmest July on record). That's a huge difference.
I don't know who Dr. Dolly is. I suppose this is your usual tack of attacking the person, not the science. In any case, all temperature record sets show warming, so it's kind of pointless going after NOAA.
Zipperfish @ Thu Aug 20, 2015 2:24 pm
Batsy2 Batsy2:
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July 2015 was the hottest month on modern record
Bullshit.
Excellent rebuttal. If all else fails, I'm sure a pigheaded refusal to face facts will see us through.