July 2017 was hottest on land in recorded history: NOAA

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July 2017 was hottest on land in recorded history: NOAA
Seth Borenstein, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Thursday, August 17, 2017 04:06 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, August 17, 2017 04:26 PM EDT
WASHINGTON — Earth yet again sizzled with unprecedented heat last month.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday Earth sweated to its second hottest month since recordkeeping began in 1880. At 61.89 degrees (16.63 Celsius), last month was behind July 2016’s all-time record by .09 degrees.
But Earth’s land temperatures in July were the hottest on record at 59.96 degrees (15.5 Celsius), passing July 2016’s by one-seventh of a degree.
Land measurements are important because that’s where we live, said NOAA climate scientist Jake Crouch.
Earlier this week, NASA calculated that July 2017 was a tad hotter than 2016, making it essentially a tie for all-time hottest month. NASA uses a newer set of ocean measurements and includes estimates for the Arctic unlike NOAA.
Record heat was reported in Africa, Australia, parts of Asia, the Middle East and the Indian ocean, Crouch said.
“There is simply no denying the mounting evidence globally and regionally — the new climate normal is upon us now,” said University of Oklahoma meteorology professor Jason Furtado, who wasn’t part of the new report.
Crouch said this heat is “very strange” because there is no El Nino spiking global temperatures, like in 2016. That shows the hot temperatures are part of long-term, man-made warming trend, he said. This year is on pace to be the second or third hottest on record.
Scientists highlighted recent extreme weather in the Pacific Northwest, where a prolonged dry spell and unusual 100-degree weather followed an extraordinarily wet winter, sparking wildfires.
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Fake news! Breitbart 'll set you right now that Bannon has been let out of his cage. He knows Science! He used to have a chemistry set when he was a kid.
 
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'Urgent' need for rich world to help poor prepare for climate extremes: WMO head


Weather agencies including Australia's must step up co-operation to close a "widening gap in capacity" with developing nations, with the urgency of action increasing as the planet heats up, David Grimes, president of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), says.

The increasing frequency of severe heatwaves, heavy rain events and droughts means it is even more important richer nations such as Australia shared their expertise in forecasting and early warning.

"It's becoming more urgent. The reality in the developing world is they lack a lot of tools," said Mr Grimes, ahead of a two-day Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society symposium in Melbourne starting on Tuesday. "You've got countries that can barely keep their monitoring systems functioning."

The potential benefits of early warning have been on show this month as heavy monsoonal rains hit many parts of South Asia, while a deluge near Freetown in Sierra Leone triggered a landslide that killed more than 500 people.

The WMO is hoping to develop a "cascading forecasting system" spanning 12 or more centres to "provide the best information we can to all parts of the world", Mr Grimes said.

Sharing such work would help "to get people out of harm's way or to inform decision making in those countries so they can build up their adaptation and resilience".

Aside from the humanitarian issues, richer nations have an interest in ensuring fragile states are not pushed to breaking point. "If you think about global security and the stability of human settlements and civil society – it's an important strategic objective of most countries," Mr Grimes said. 2017 is on course to be the second hottest year on record globally, trailing only 2016. Even without the temperature boost that last year had from a big El Nino in the Pacific, last month was the hottest July on record for land temperatures.

Britain's European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts was recently named by WMO as one of its global centres along with a centre in Montreal, Canada, while France and Germany are among those vying to take on similar roles.

"​I expect by next year or so, we'll probably have most of those centres established," Mr Grimes said.

The Trump administration's pledge to roll back America's climate research is so far barely having an effect, he said.

That's despite reports in the US that the government was disbanding a federal advisory panel for the National Climate Assessment, a group that applies climate analysis to public and corporate planning.

"I don't see the evidence [of a pullback] on the weather side," Mr Grimes said. "You can still accomplish quite a lot without getting into the whole conversation about climate change."

'Urgent' need for rich world to help poor prepare for climate extremes: WMO head
 
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That's the Australia just busted for faking the climate data?

TEMPERATURE READINGS PLUNGE AFTER AUSTRALIA’S BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY ORDERS END TO ‘TAMPERING’

"The Bureau* of Meteorology (BoM) initially claimed the adjustments were part of its quality control procedures. But bureau chief executive Andrew Johnson later told Environment Minister Josh* Frydenberg that investigations had found a number of cold-weather stations were not “fit for purpose” and would be replaced."
TEMPERATURE READINGS PLUNGE AFTER AUSTRALIA

You know, I am not trying to be difficult here - it just doesn't hurt to do a little digging...
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Being "PC" and "informed" are NOT the same thing.
 
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Let's hope Trudeau send s them money instead of importing them.......
 
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It would be a better fight if kids walked the 3 blocks instead of riding a bus to school.

BTW...Whose recorded history?

The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with Sumerian Cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of coherent writing from the protoliterate period around the 30th century BC.
 
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No taking into account the unusual cold in Germany. Just measure the spots that fir the narrative and/or huge the data. Or the long cold wet spring BC had.
 
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How Will La Niña Impact Winter 2017?

According to a*report Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the United States and Canada stands to be affected by La Niña weather*conditions which will influence the winter of 2017 and the early part of 2018.
The report stated that a weaker form of La Niña has already arrived, impacting oceanic and atmospheric conditions in October and early November. This month has already begun recording cooler-than-average sea-surface temperatures near the equator. The sudden change in the oceanic temperature has been attributed to La Niña.
La Niña (a Spanish term meaning “little girl”) is known to cause temperatures of the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean to fall below average. Winters in the inland northwest, typically impacted by this weather condition in the past, were characterized by normal precipitation and below normal temperatures. But this year, the forecast is for a wetter winter in the region.
La Niña has arrived and is likely to persist through the winter. This map is a forecast for the coming months.Photo: NOAA
It is often considered to be the opposite of El Niño, which heats up the Pacific Ocean waters instead. Along with La Niña, El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, has become one of the leading determinants of weather patterns in North America, particularly during the winter.
According to NOAA, La Niña is not only going to affect the Pacific Ocean at a surface-level, but also cool deeper waters in the ocean. Due to La Niña, the Pacific will also receive less-than-average rate of precipitation.
And how will La Niña affect the United States? People living in Alaska and down across the provinces of northwest and western Canada, into the northern plains and upper Midwest should brace for cooler-than-average winters, Mashable reported. States in the U.S. spread across the Pacific northwest, and also those in the Midwest, will experience a wetter-than-average winter.
The north west mountains of Colorado, for example, is expected to receive snowfall in the winter if this weathering pattern holds, given that the jet stream orients itself from northwest to southeast over Washington, Oregon and Idaho, according to CBS Denver. However, if the jet stream travels south, chances of the mountains as well as the north of Interstate 70 receiving light to moderate snowfall*are diminished.
There is also a 50 percent chance that the weaker form of La Niña will persist till*February through April 2018. This means that in all likelyhood, 2018 might end up being a cooler year than 2017, which was largely influenced by the heat strain brought on by El Niño, becoming one of the top three warmest years, according to records dating back to 1880.
Nevertheless, due to the weak nature of La Niña, there is a chance that 2018 might set a new kind of record — being the warmest La Niña year on record. Global warming plays a vital role in muting the effects of La Niña this year. However, this does not mean that the mid-Atlantic and northeastern regions will receive less-than-expected amount of snowfall because of it.
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While it is certainly a possibility, such a pattern cannot be predicted for certain due to other factors such as the North Atlantic Oscillation, which might bring snowy winters to cities across the northeast coast, from Portland, Maine, to Washington, D.C.
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They even had to put a dig in there that it would be worse if it wasn't for climate change
 
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