Posted on 07/07/2023 7:32:08 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
The planet’s temperature soared again on Thursday to levels not seen in the modern record-keeping era, marking the fourth straight day of record temperatures. These alarming new records are likely the highest temperatures in “at least 100,000 years,” one scientist told CNN.
The global average daily temperature climbed to 17.23 degrees Celsius (63.01 degrees Fahrenheit) on Thursday, according to the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, which uses data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction.
It’s been a week of record-breaking temperatures. On Monday, the average global temperature reached 17.01 degrees Celsius (62.62 degrees Fahrenheit), the highest in the NCEP’s data, which goes back to 1979. On Tuesday it climbed to 17.18 degrees Celsius, where it remained on Wednesday.
Before this week, the record in NCEP’s data was 16.92 degrees Celsius and was set in August 2016.
Though this week’s records are not yet official, another global climate tracking agency confirmed several in its own data. The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said Monday’s and Tuesday’s global temperatures were also records in its data, which dates back to 1940.
While the records are based on observational data sets that only go back to the mid-20th century, they are “almost certainly” the warmest temperatures the planet has seen over a much longer time period, according to Jennifer Francis, a senior scientist at Woodwell Climate Research Center.
Francis estimated that this week’s temperatures are the warmest “probably going back at least 100,000 years,” calling the records “a huge thing.”
The highest temperatures in umpty bazillion years.
Most weather bureaus are at airports…where there is nothing but concrete, asphalt, metal, glass, and jet exhaust. Of course it gets hotter.
Another article written by Chicken Little.
They use 1979 as a base because it was a super cold year. The 1930s were hotter.
GIGO.
I’m so alarmed that I put a blanket on to sleep last night - with the windows open.
LOL! At a MINIMUM, I have to have at LEAST a sheet covering me and a small fan running - all year ‘round.
And I live on, ‘The Frozen Tundra!’
I’m sure it’s ALL MY FAULT, this global warming stuff and all.
*SNORT*
It was five to fifteen degrees colder than the norm all first
six months of this year. Did anyone talk about that, other
than to just admit it was another day without sunshine, with
no commentary at all about “We’re all going to die.”
Five to fifteen degrees colder, and they are worried about
one to one point five degrees warmer by the end of the
century? What the _ ?
Up here on The Frozen Tundra, we went an entire MONTH (January, 2023) without the Sun ONCE shining upon us!
My Christmas Cactus was SO CONFUSED that she bloomed in February...after blooming in November.
Nature knows. Just follow her lead. Funny how these ‘scientists’ are so far removed from the Natural World! ;)
I think there are two major categories of science, experimental and observational.
Experimental science includes things like simple high school physics lab, DNA analysis and synthesis, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, etc.
Observational science includes botany (billions of plants), zoology (billions of animals), geology (lots of rocks, even moon rocks), astronomy (trillions of stars), etc.
Climate “Science” is neither of these: we can’t do experiments on climates, nor can we observe other climates. We can’t even accurately observe our own climate over a significant stretch of time.
In other words, it’s a lot of speculation, which produces hypotheses which cannot really be tested. So they’re not even theories.
“Climate ‘Science’ is neither of these: we can’t do experiments on climates, nor can we observe other climates. We can’t even accurately observe our own climate over a significant stretch of time.”
Well said!
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