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The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for August 2016 was the highest for August in the 137-year period of record, marking the 16th consecutive month of record warmth for the globe. The August 2016 temperature departure of 0.92°C (1.66°F) above the 20th century average of 15.6°C (60.1°F) surpassed the previous record set in 2015 by 0.05°C (0.09°F). August 2016 was also the highest monthly land and ocean temperature departure since April 2016 and tied with September 2015 as the eighth highest monthly temperature departure among all months (1,640) on record. Fourteen of the 15 highest monthly land and ocean temperature departures in the record have occurred since February 2015, with January 2007 among the 15 highest monthly temperature departures.
The June–August seasonal global land and ocean temperature was 0.89°C (1.60°F) above the 20th century average of 15.6°C (60.1°F)—the highest temperature departure from average for June–August in the 1880–2016 record, surpassing the previous record set in 2015 by 0.04°C (0.07°F). June–August 2016 also marks the tenth highest three-month departure for any three-month period on record. The 10 highest three-month temperature departures in the record have all occurred since August–October 2015, when a strong El Niño episode was in place in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
The first eight months of the year were characterized by much-warmer-than-average conditions across much of the globe's surface, resulting in the highest January–August period on record at 1.01°C (1.82°F) above the 20th century average of 14.0°C (57.3°F). This value exceeded the previous record set in 2015 by 0.16°C (0.29°F).
Earth roasts through hottest summer ever recordedMichael Mann: "There is now very robust paleoclimate evidence that the past decade was likely Earth’s warmest in more than a thousand years, and there is somewhat more tentative but nonetheless compelling evidence that we have moved into territory unseen in more than a hundred thousand years."
NOAA = no credibility
Ah, posting in support of your peer group, Skull. Sad when your only arguement is a silly cartoon. Sadder still as it reflects the intellect making the post. We are experiancing unprecedented heat, that is a fact. Recorded not only by scientists in this nation, but the scientists in all the nations. And your response, and that of the denialists in general, is to make really silly and foolish comments.
Ah, posting in support of your peer group, Skull. Sad when your only arguement is a silly cartoon. Sadder still as it reflects the intellect making the post. We are experiancing unprecedented heat, that is a fact. Recorded not only by scientists in this nation, but the scientists in all the nations. And your response, and that of the denialists in general, is to make really silly and foolish comments.
NOAA = no credibility
No one has more credibility. Doesn't surprise me as you are anti-civilization to the core.
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what a load of crap.....
US CRN says NOPE! and paleo records say Nope!
How us it the "hottest evahhhhhh!" When 1997 averaged 62F
Why did they drop the 1997 temperature by 4F?
You need me to post it again for you?Why did they drop the 1997 temperature by 4F?
Link?
You need me to post it again for you?Why did they drop the 1997 temperature by 4F?
Link?
Do you have amnesia?
