Posted on 07/21/2016 7:25:40 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
GENEVA (Reuters) - The earth is on track for its hottest year on record and warming at a faster rate than expected, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday.
Temperatures recorded mainly in the northern hemisphere in the first six months of the year, coupled with an early and fast Arctic sea ice melt and "new highs" in heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels, point to quickening climate change, it said.
June marked the 14th straight month of record heat, the United Nations agency said. It called for speedy implementation of a global pact reached in Paris last December to limit climate change by shifting from fossil fuels to green energy by 2100.
"What weve seen so far for the first six months of 2016 is really quite alarming," David Carlson, director of the WMOs Climate Research Program, told a news briefing.
"This year suggests that the planet can warm up faster than we expected in a much shorter time... We dont have as much time as we thought."
The average temperature in the first six months of 2016 was 1.3° Celsius (2.4° Fahrenheit) warmer than the pre-industrial era of the late 19th Century, according to space agency NASA.
Under the Paris Agreement, nearly 200 governments agreed to limit global warming to well below 2°C (3.6°F) above pre-industrial levels, while "pursuing efforts" for a ceiling of 1.5°C - a lower limit already close to being reached.
The last month with global temperatures below the 20th century average was December 1984, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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Because it makes the corn grow big here in Nebraska. Ha Ha
We’ve yet to have a 100° day here in North Texas.
My wife heard one “weather person” state that it was caused by “corn sweat” .... so when it gets hot in July - August, it’s the corn sweat causing it.
When we have a record setting cold spell, it means nothing.
One day when it’s warmer than normal is talked about for months on end, if not years.
These folks are hysterical.
It would be funny, but they want to base legislation and owning your rights based on the flawed logic.
Hopefully this year will mark the beginning of the end of global warming.
“Global warming expoditian stopped by Arctic sea ice. Story two days ago on yahoo news. Google it !”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3451133/posts
It dried up because of the exhaust from all the cars and trucks on I-80.
Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here
Federal Lab Ignored Environmental Data Manipulation For Years
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3447748/posts
But do the fields stink from all of that corn sweat?
Those poor farmers...
The UN needs to create another office to regulate corn sweating, so Obama can agree to pay for it!
What a bunch of hooey!
< Hopefully this year will mark the beginning of the end of global warming.
Global warming ends on January 20, 2017 (as soon as Obama and ValJar hand over their keys)
Global warming is caused by excessive firearms ownership and microaggressions against transgenders.
I *wish*.
Maybe I could keep riding clear into December.
As it was, *once again*, it was an was unseasonably cold spring and we didn’t really get going until June, rather than March, like years before.
Bring on the hot!
The measurments offered are like hair temperature as a measure of a human core temp. It’s BS.
By the way, there is strong evidence the rise and fall of temperature precedes the rise and fall of CO2!
“The fact that the temperature increase precedes the CO2 rise would suggest that the temperature is not driven by the CO2 rise, even though they may be coupled.” (Dr. Ian Clark)
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/icecore.html
As this appears to be discovered and supported by the actual evidence, CO2 really cannot be the reason for temperature rising and falling!
There are several well laid out sources publishing on this recently.
If you are subsribed to Adapt2030 on Googtube you can find out just how hot it is.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=azQ232z0yTw
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oU8Rfd935a4
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hB8X9S2aG04
If you read Ice Age Now you can out there, too.
http://iceagenow.info
Human efforts to reduce global warming are, at best, a joke. This is a planet and climate changes have taken place for thousands of years....glaciers once covered Wisconsin so global warming has opened up a LOT of farm land to grow crops and cows....maybe a little more will benefit Canada and Siberia..we aren’t causing it and we cannot stop it.
WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE!
Meanwhile, sattelite data shows global temperatures plunging (from admittedly a spike).
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