Posted on 01/12/2011 3:38:37 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Last year tied for the warmest since data started in 1880, capping a decade of record high temperatures that shows mankind's greenhouse gas emissions are heating the planet, two U.S. agencies said.
Global surface temperatures in 2010 were 1.12 degrees Fahrenheit (0.62 Celsius) above the 20th century average, tying the record set in 2005, the National Climatic Data Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Wednesday.
"These results show that the climate is continuing to show the influence of greenhouse gases. It's showing evidence of warming," David Easterling, the chief of the scientific services division at the NCDC, told reporters in a teleconference.
Many places, such as Russia and Pakistan, suffered from heat waves and floods that killed thousands, scorched crops and inundated countless farm acres. Those events, caused in part by a shifted jet stream in the atmosphere, helped lead to record global food prices and threaten to lead to food riots like those seen in 2008.
It's not possible to directly link global warming as the cause of one weather event. But the trend of rising temperatures since 2000 increases the possibility of extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts and floods, Easterling said. Every year since 2000 has ranked as one of the 15 warmest years on record, he said.
Last year was also the wettest on record and a warmer atmosphere holds more water, which in general can result in more floods, he said.
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Sooooooo....how DO they explain the tropical buried treasures found in Northern Canada and Alaska from past ages? Dinosaur farting? Sheesh....
fofl
You’re too kind.
Here in Reno, Nevada I doubt that I turned the AC on ten times last summer whereas the year before it was running almost everyday during the summer months.
The notion that you can take spotty thermometer data from 1880 and call it a "global temperature" for that year, and then trend these "global temperatures" up into modern times and say that the trend means anything is preposterous.
True "global" representations of temperature didn't happen until satellites began doing systematic global surveys on daily and annual bases. And even now we have satellite sensor problems, intentional data cherry picking of surface readings, improper weather station locations near heat sources, and improper use of proxy data used to fill in for uninhabited areas or inhabited areas with no readings.
In short, there is no such thing as a reliable trend of global surface data; especially when the trend they are calling a problem is within the margin of error.
I wouldn’t be surprised if folks all over thought it was a cooler year. It doesn’t take long to shoot down some of this nonsense.
Isn’t part of the reason that the Russian wheat failed was too cold weather?
In other “news,” unemployment is down to a record 23%, the dollar is stronger than ever, and Americans are happier than ever. All Praise Dear Leader Obama! Or else!
Good! What caused the temperature records, written accurately (i. e. non-politically) in the layers of ice, during the other 25 million years? 130 years of measurements? Are you $HittING me?
Heck, I’ve read one of the sensors here in Dallas is right next to an active runway at DFW International. Them jet exhausts are gonna make it run high next to all that concrete.
I have read that many or most of the thermometers are in places that would be warmer that the surrounding area.
Horse Hockey! It’s the ‘heat island’ effect of some of the locations of the thermometers that is driving this nonsense. The satellite information tells a completely different story.
We live in Palm Desert, CA. The best summer in the 6 summers we have spent here. Everyone living here felt the same, without exception.
It never got warm enough in So. California to wear shorts except for one week!!!
The coldest summer I can remember!
No mention of the horrible winter in early 2010 or the incredibly cold December. No mention of the Strong La Nina that has been raging since early summer.
What planet are these clowns living on ? 2010 saw a record number of Manatee deaths in Florida due to the cold. Think I would trust a Manatee before I would trust a government agency.
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