Last 8 years warmest on record globally: EU climate monitor

France24 ^ | January 10, 2023

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Paris (AFP) – The last eight years were the warmest on record even with the cooling influence of a La Nina weather pattern since 2020, the European Union's climate monitoring service said Tuesday.

Average temperatures across 2022 -- which saw a cascade of unprecedented natural disasters made more likely and deadly by climate change -- make it the fifth warmest year since records began in the 19th century, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service.

Pakistan and northern India were scorched by a two-month spring heatwave with sustained temperatures well above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), followed in Pakistan by flooding that covered a third of the country.

France, Britain, Spain and Italy set new average temperature records for 2022, with Europe as a whole enduring its second hottest year ever, Copernicus said in an annual report.

European temperatures have increased by more than twice the global average over the past 30 years, with the region showing the highest rate of increase of any continent on the globe.

"2022 was yet another year of climate extremes across Europe and globally," said deputy head of the Copernicus climate change service Samantha Burgess in a statement.

"These events highlight that we are already experiencing the devastating consequences of our warming world."

Large swathes of the Middle East, China, central Asia and northern Africa also saw unprecedented warmth averaged across the whole of 2022.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

No warming in the last 100 months.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/04/the-new-pause-lengthens-100-months-with-no-warming-at-all/

The EU is full of mendacity and tyranny, one reason George Washington warned against entangling alliances.

[cuban leaf]

We’re on the same page. It’s interesting that us AGW “deniers” know about stuff like this, while those that buy into the hype have no clue.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I used to live in central florida. There was a monitoring station in Mulberry which originally stood in the middle of a field. By the time I lived in the area it was in a parking lot sitting next to a slew of air conditioning units on the side of a building.

There’s your global warming.

[crusty old prospector]

Also Athabasca Glacier near Jasper, Alberta.

[EastTexasTraveler]

“I think they just make up numbers.”

Yes they do. every word is a lie.

[Sequoyah101]

Prove it. The numbers are made up.

Show the data in hard numbers. Compare them to Roman times when it was even hotter than now. How about the 1930s or mid-50s.

Weather stations in concrete covered heat islands don’t count. Take them out of the data. Only use existing stations that are in remote natural locations that have been consistently instrumented and consistently monitored for centuries. There aren’t any are there?

[The Great RJ]

Every year is reported to be the warmest on record, but where and how do they know? If every year is the warmest on record, in a few years I expect to be in a T-shirt basking in the sun at my northern Minnesota cabin in February.

[seowulf]

We know they have manipulated data for political reasons in the past. Does anyone think they wouldn’t still cook the data?

Exposed: How world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data
The Mail on Sunday can reveal a landmark paper exaggerated global warming
It was rushed through and timed to influence the Paris agreement on climate change
America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration broke its own rules
The report claimed the pause in global warming never existed, but it was based on misleading, ‘unverified’ data
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4192182/World-leaders-duped-manipulated-global-warming-data.html

[Stand Watch Listen]

   Meanwhile, is it warmer because they’re taking data from Earth stations that used to be in the middle of a field and now they’re in a parking lot next to an HVAC unit? 

The internet is awash with "hundreds" of articles/pics to substantiate your statement...

●● Garbage In, Garbage Out: 96% of NOAA Temperature Stations Fail ‘Uncorrupted Placement’ Standards

●● U.S. Climate Data Compromised by Sensors' Proximity to Heat Sources, Critics Say

• A sensor in Redding, Calif., is housed in a box that also contains a halogen light bulb, which could emit warmth directly onto the gauge.

• A sensor in Hanksville, Utah, sits directly atop a gravestone, which is not only macabre but also soaks up the sun's heat and radiates it back to the thermometer at night.

• A sensor in Marysville, Calif., sits in a parking lot at a fire station right next to an air conditioner exhaust, a cell phone tower and a barbecue grill.

• A sensor in Tahoe City, Calif., sits near a paved tennis court and is right next to a "burn barrel" that incinerates garbage.

• A sensor in Hopkinsville, Ky., is sheltered from the wind by an adjoining house and sits above an asphalt driveway.

• Dozens of sensors are located at airports and sewage treatment plants, which produce "heat islands" from their sprawling seas of asphalt and heavy emissions.