2017 breaks heat record despite absence of El Nino

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In a report released to coincide with the opening of the Bonn climate conference in Germany on Monday, the WMO said the five-year average was now running at about 1 degree warmer than the average for 1880-1900 period. The same conference two years ago in Paris agreed to keep warming to below 2 degrees.

Such a ranking for 2017 will be notable not least because El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) conditions have been neutral this year, removing the warming boost the past two years had from an El Nino.

"It's clearly the warmest year [on record] that doesn't have a warming influence," said Blair Trewin, senior climatologist at the Bureau of Meteorology and scientific coordinator of the WMO report.

Mean temperatures are running 0.96 degrees above the 1961-90 average used by the bureau. Maximum temperatures were even more unusual, running at 1.34 degrees above average.

The WMO's report comes a week after the United Nations agency said greenhouse gases are now at levels not seen for perhaps five million years. Carbon dioxide levels rose the most on record last year, increasing 3.3 parts per million to 403.3 ppm.

Even without an El Nino kick, 2017 heads for top-three ranking for global heat
 
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Interesting that it is the warmest year on record 10 months in. If the snow continues on the west coast it will be the coldest winter on record. Oops sorry facts don't fit the scenario.
 
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Bummer...they are only going back to 1961 as "the record". Does "the record" not go back farther? What was the temperature in Calgary in 1874?

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There is also the long cold wet spring we suffered through. I guess that doesn't count either.
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With the blob gone it's gonna suck out there.
 
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taxslave said:
Interesting that it is the warmest year on record 10 months in. If the snow continues on the west coast it will be the coldest winter on record. Oops sorry facts don't fit the scenario.
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Yes it is interesting that it is the warming year on record despite the worst possible winter.


That is interesting.



HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmm....
 
petros

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It's only - 17C this AM. A record smasher.

If it gets any hotter...

Hey Taxslave
Aren't you glad you don't have Fortis? You'd be paying record carbon taxes on you record breaking NG use.

I hope your chainsaw blade is sharp and your bar straight.

meanwhile as Summer 2017 get underway south of the Equator...

Frequent rain to limit summer heat from northern Argentina through central Brazil

As northeastern Brazil faces a worsening drought, much of the country is forecast to receive plenty of rain and thunderstorms throughout the season.

"Much of the rest of Brazil into Paraguay and northern Argentina will have frequent rains which should result in near- to above-normal precipitation for most of the remainder of the croplands," Nicholls said.

The widespread rain will also help to limit extreme heat from building across the region. A few heat waves are still possible, but they are expected to be brief before the rains return.
 
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We had a cold summer in ON. Corn and bean yields are way down due to lack of heat units. OP is bullshit.
 
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