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2014 on Track to be Hottest Year on Record
“If we continue a consistent departure from average for the rest of 2014, we will edge out 2010 as the warmest year on record,” said Jake Crouch, a climatologist with NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center, during a press briefing Thursday. Specifically, if each of the remaining months of the year ranks among the top five warmest, 2014 will take the top spot, he said. The news may come as a surprise to those living in the eastern portion of the U.S., which has seen a relatively cool year so far, with a frigid winter followed by a near-average summer (which seemed extremely mild compared to recent steamy summers). But the global picture shows that the East was “pretty much the only land area in the globe that had cooler-than-average temperatures,” Crouch said. (The western U.S., on the other hand, has been baking.)
For the year-to-date, the globe has measured 1.22°F above the 20th century average of 57.3°F, which makes January-August 2014 the third warmest such period since records began in 1880. The record-hot August marks the 38th consecutive August and the 354th consecutive month with a global average temperature above the 20th century average, according to the NCDC. Of the five warmest years on record (2010, 2005, 1998, 2013, and 2003, in that order), only 2013 and 2014 didn’t start with a mature El Nino, according to NOAA. Of the top 10 warmest years on record, 1998 is the only year that didn’t occur in the 21st century, showing how much global temperatures have risen due to the increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
The top 10 warmest years on record globally, according to NOAA data.
Not in the northeast its not,nor has been,another long cold winter is predicted,long cold spring cold summer,but hey we are doomed to melt,someday
you like me live in the part of the northern hemisphere that doesn't count. Ask them, we only make up 2% of the globe therefore we are irrelavant.
We in Chicago have been at least 20 degrees under normal at times during this summer. 20 degrees and that is irrelavant.
And up pops another new ignorant rightwingnut and an old rightwingnut troll, neither of whom can comprehend the fact that the weather in their backyard does not reflect what is happening all around the planet. I, and others, have repeatedly pointed out to these easily duped deniers that the entire USA only covers about 2% of the Earth's surface and the cooler parts of America this year were only a fraction of the country, meanwhile most of the rest of the planet was experiencing above average temperatures.
As the scientist quoted in the OP said:
The news may come as a surprise to those living in the eastern portion of the U.S., which has seen a relatively cool year so far, with a frigid winter followed by a near-average summer (which seemed extremely mild compared to recent steamy summers). But the global picture shows that the East was “pretty much the only land area in the globe that had cooler-than-average temperatures,” Crouch said. (The western U.S., on the other hand, has been baking.)
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