Earth's hot streak continues for a record 11 months

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Earth's hot streak continues for a record 11 months
Seth Borenstein, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 01:55 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 02:04 PM EDT
WASHINGTON -- Earth's record monthly heat streak has hit 11 months in a row -- a record in itself.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Tuesday that March's average global temperature of 54.9 degrees (12.7 Celsius) was not only the hottest March, but continues a record streak that started last May.
According to NOAA climate scientist Jessica Blunden, the 11 heat records in a row smashes a streak of 10 set in 1944. Climate scientists say this is a result of El Nino, along with relentless, man-made global warming.
Blunden and Michael Mann at the University of Pennsylvania worry that people will be desensitized to the drumbeat of broken records and will not realize the real effect they have on weather -- for example, massive changes in what is supposed to be winter in the Arctic. Greenland had a record early start for its ice sheet melting. The Arctic had its smallest winter maximum for sea ice and it was the second smallest March snow cover for the Northern Hemisphere.
"It's becoming monotonous in a way," said Jason Furtado, a meteorology professor at the University of Oklahoma. "It's absolutely disturbing ... We're losing critical elements of our climate system."
March was 2.2 degrees (1.2 Celsius) warmer than the 20th-century average. That's a record amount above average for any month, breaking the mark set only the month before. Africa and the Indian Ocean were especially warm, Blunden said.
The first three months of the year were 2.07 degrees (0.97 Celsius) warmer than normal and half a degree warmer than the previous record start, set last year.
Beyond NOAA, NASA, the Japanese weather agency and satellite tracking measurements have reported that March was a record hot month. Blunden said there's a good chance April will mark a solid year of records. Eventually, she said, the record setting streak will come to an end as the El Nino dissipates.
El Nino, a warming of parts of the Pacific which changes weather worldwide, tends to push global temperatures up. La Nina, its cooling flip side, is forecast for later this year.
For NOAA, this is the 37th time monthly heat records have been broken since the year 2000, but it has been more than 99 years since the last time a global cold record has been set.
NOAA records go back to 1880.
Earth's hot streak continues for a record 11 months | World | News | Toronto Sun
 
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So basically the Pacific warm blob is getting bigger and that will the dominate weather factor for the west coast. That would seem to point to a chinook in the summer which would more like a santa-anna wind as far as the Prairies go until the north winds take over, wheat and hail, always a great combination.

Wasn't there some volcanoes going off in South America a few years ago when the blob first started to appear? What would be after South America if that was part of a ripple effect? The blob could have started some time before Japan's quake and that would have been the result of a little faster than normal expansion at the rift off the coast of BC. That part of the rift would be responsible for all the heating in the Pacific and El Nino might be from that same expansion only at a smaller rate and the heat did not break the surface until it has been carried south and mistaken for heated water caused by the sun and the tropics. (in that the sun can't heat up the water in that one area and not have it affect the whole earth at that same level)

Sinkholes could play a part as they should be directly above the plumes of 'cool' mantle that sinks towards the core to be reheated and rise again at the rifts. Sometimes faster and sometimes at a slower rate that cause the ice-ages to come and go. Which ever mode is the most common is the one that we would thrive under. At the moment being closer together and having abundant food might result in man being able to work together better rather than 'over-crowding' causing more tension. For the ones looking for a past without any supernatural Gods involved that would seem to be a reasonable explanation. If South American ruins point to 3 different qualities of stome work then perhaps the last 3 ice ages would mirror that history. If we were really lucky the length of the ice-age would show up in the quality of the work, the longer period would end up with the best work as we got better the more time we 'were crowded together'. We are at war now because resources are scarce compared to those other times. The 'giants' of old are men who have been overfeeding for a few 100,000 years. The heavy bones of neanderthal would be age marks that a skull goes through when they live to be hundreds of years old, as the ice-age climate changed it became impossible to feed everybody or something like that.
 
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The biggest polluters will just pass the 'carbon tax' they pay back onto the consumers or they will be exempt because it is a military program. Even if they have to admit is isn't man made they have to spin it that the 'solution' is expensive and needs to be implemented last week and run for about 100 years before any benefit will be seen. So far the sunspot theme is getting the most attention as being the leading cause and the cure might be more chemtrails. If fly-ash at high altitudes adds heat to the air as it falls it allows the upper air to hold more moisture and that would delay a rain or hail storm. Perhaps the ones with the black above the chemtrail is to allow it to fall as a cold product and that would create rain, hail, snow.



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