JMA says july was the hottest on record

[ScienceRocks]

At +0.44C above the 81-10 average, July 2016 is the warmest on record according to the JMA, beating the previous record set last year by +0.06C.

Top 5
1st. 2016 (+0.44°C)
2nd. 2015 (+0.38°C)
3rd. 1998 (+0.30°C)
4th. 2014 (+0.28°C)
5th. 2010, 2005 (+0.24°C)


Yep, the Japanese are now dishonorable, lol

 

[mamooth]

NASA GISS also reports a record high for July 2016. That's ten hottest months in a row.

 

[Steven_R]

And? It's not like the Earth has never been hotter than it is right now. And it's not like it's never been colder than the coldest month on record. There is no correct temperature for us to shoot for. The climate changes, always has, always will. It may be anthropogenic, it may be completely natural, it may be a combination of the two, but even if we stop all human activity that could affect the climate, it's still going to get hotter and still going to get colder. It's only slightly warmer now than it was during the Medieval Warm Period. We're barely out of the Little Ice Age. We simply don't have enough understanding of periodic climate to see the future clearly.

 

[mamooth]

And? It's not like the Earth has never been hotter than it is right now. And it's not like it's never been colder than the coldest month on record. There is no correct temperature for us to shoot for.

Of course there is, that being the temperature which human civilization grew up with, and which we're soaring away from now.

The climate changes, always has, always will. It may be anthropogenic, it may be completely natural, it may be a combination of the two, but even if we stop all human activity that could affect the climate, it's still going to get hotter and still going to get colder.

Red herring, being the issue is what happens if we don't stop human activity that affects climate. What happens is strong warming, which causes massive damage.

It's only slightly warmer now than it was during the Medieval Warm Period.

It's a lot warmer. On a global scale, the localized MWP barely registered.

We're barely out of the Little Ice Age. We simply don't have enough understanding of periodic climate to see the future clearly.

We know absolutely that humans are causing it to warm quickly right now, and we know how to stop it.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Be it natural or manmade...We have to consider that most of our population, cities and infrastructure is near the coastlines. It is well worth the research and monitoring.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

And? It's not like the Earth has never been hotter than it is right now. And it's not like it's never been colder than the coldest month on record. There is no correct temperature for us to shoot for.

Of course there is, that being the temperature which human civilization grew up with, and which we're soaring away from now.

The climate changes, always has, always will. It may be anthropogenic, it may be completely natural, it may be a combination of the two, but even if we stop all human activity that could affect the climate, it's still going to get hotter and still going to get colder.

Red herring, being the issue is what happens if we don't stop human activity that affects climate. What happens is strong warming, which causes massive damage.

It's only slightly warmer now than it was during the Medieval Warm Period.

It's a lot warmer. On a global scale, the localized MWP barely registered.

We're barely out of the Little Ice Age. We simply don't have enough understanding of periodic climate to see the future clearly.

We know absolutely that humans are causing it to warm quickly right now, and we know how to stop it.

Of course there is, that being the temperature which human civilization grew up with

LIA temperature? Or MWP temperature?

It's a lot warmer.

Sure it is.

On a global scale, the localized MWP barely registered.

Localized? You mean where human civilization was growing up?

and we know how to stop it.

Wasting trillions on windmills while weakening our economies?

 

[Steven_R]

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We know absolutely that humans are causing it to warm quickly right now, and we know how to stop it.

That's nonsense and you know it. You can't accurately say X% of the climate change is due to natural event and Y% is manmade. You multiple contradicting studies and papers and conferences saying yeah it's because of man" but they can't pinpoint exactly what is attributed to us and what isn't. It's more political and supposition at this point than it is science.

 

[mamooth]

By that same standard, we can't absolutely say smoking causes cancer.

You inconsistent demand for absolute certainty only in this case is what's nonsense, and you know it.

 

[waltky]

NASA says July was hottest month on record...

July was hottest month in recorded history, says Nasa
Tuesday 16th August, 2016 - Earth has sweltered through its hottest month in recorded history, according to Nasa.

Even after the fading of a strong El Nino, which raises global temperatures on top of man-made climate change, July broke global temperature records. Nasa calculated that July was 0.84C (1.51F) warmer than the 1950-1980 global average. Chief climate scientist Gavin Schmidt said that is hotter than the previous top temperatures in July 2011 and July 2015. Scientists blame mostly man-made climate change from the burning of fossil fuel, with an extra jump from the now-gone El Nino, which is a natural temporary warming of parts of the Pacific Ocean that changes weather worldwide.

Georgia Tech climate scientist Kim Cobb said the rise is significant "because global temperatures continue to warm even as a record-breaking El Nino event has finally released its grip". Nasa's five hottest months - in records going back to 1880 - are July 2016, July 2011, July 2015, July 2009 and August 2014. Only July 2015 was during an El Nino. . This is the 10th record hot month in a row, according to Nasa.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which calculates temperatures slightly differently, will come out with its July figures on Wednesday. The NOAA has figured there have been 14 monthly heat records broken in a row, before July. "The scary thing is that we are moving into an era where it will be a surprise when each new month or year isn't one of the hottest on record," said Chris Field, a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution and Stanford University. The new record and all the records that have been broken recently tell one cohesive story, said Mr Schmidt, director of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies: "The planet is getting warmer. It's important for what it tells us about the future."

July was hottest month in recorded history, says Nasa - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

See also:

Melting glaciers pose threat beyond water scarcity: floods
Tuesday 16th August, 2016 -- The tropical glaciers of South America are dying from soot and rising temperatures, threatening water supplies to communities that have depended on them for centuries. But experts say that the slow process measured in inches of glacial retreat per year also can lead to a sudden, dramatic tragedy.

The melting of glaciers like Peru's Pastoruri has put cities like Huaraz, located downslope from the glacier about 55 kilometres away, at risk from what scientists call a "glof" - glacial lake outburst flood. A glof occurs when the weak walls of a mountain valley collapse under the weight of meltwater from a glacier. Recent examples include the rapid draining in 2013 of a lake at Chile's Ventisquero glacier in the Bernardo O'Higgins National Park, six years after another, nearby lake essentially disappeared there.

Those sites are in remote, sparsely populated Patagonia. But if the glacial Palcacocha lake collapsed, it could cause a damaging flood, say experts in Peru, sort of like a smaller, modern cousin of the ancient glof that is thought to have carved the English Channel. "As glaciers disappear around the world, there is less water available for use for hydroelectric power, as a renewable resource for agriculture, for human consumption," said Benjamin Orlove, a professor of international and public affairs at Colombia University in New York. "The glacier retreat also brings many disasters. Entire slopes are destabilized, creating landslides that travel many miles and have destroyed entire towns." Benjamin Morales Arnao, the head of Peru's National Institute for Glacier Research, said that while the country's glaciers "are a source of life, due to their water resources and biodiversity ... these glaciers are also a source of glacial catastrophes." The problem is that glacial lakes are often fragile structures, created when rocks and rubble carried by a glacier form a moraine that dams up its water outflow. The dam can also be created by chunks of a glacier's own ice.

A group of tourists walk backdropped by the "Tuco" glacier in Huascaran National Park, in a tour called "Route of climate change" in Huaraz, Peru​

These inherently unstable structures can collapse quickly, especially in a place like Peru that is prone to frequent, violent earthquakes. At a conference last week on the glacier retreat in Peru, Morales Arnao said that Huaraz, a city of about 100,000 people, is particularly at risk from the glacial Palcacocha lake, just 20 kilometre up the mountain above the city, and called for resources to mitigate the risk. In the past, dams, spillways and other waterworks have helped in other places. Massive glofs have occurred regularly in sparsely populated parts of Iceland and other nations. The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, a regional intergovernmental research center serving the eight countries of the Himalayas, said that in Nepal - whose proximity to the highest and largest meltwater sources in the world makes it particularly vulnerable - "little attention was paid to the phenomenon until the sudden outburst of the Dig Tsho," a relatively small meltwater lake in the Mount Everest National Park. On Aug. 4, 1985, the lake's moraine dam collapsed, and all its water drained into a downstream valley in four hours, causing losses as far as 50 to 60 kilometres downstream.

Scientists later determined that "a large ice and rock avalanche had cascaded into the lake, creating a wave that spilled over the moraine and caused it to collapse," the center's report said. "It discharged an estimated 6 to 10 million cubic metres of water into the valley below." Digging stone- or cement-lined channels through glacial dams is one solution to the threat. Many moraine dams collapse because meltwater erodes them by seepage or over-topping them. Stopping global warming that is increasingly causing glaciers to melt is another. Experts at the International Forum on Glaciers and Mountain Ecosystems held in Huaraz last week concluded that the world is going to have to plan on melting glaciers, at least for the time being. "The processes of climate change and glacial melting are irreversible," the forum said in its conclusions. "We have to carry out actions to adapt, and mitigate the risks." "The long-term solution is for the world to shift to different energy sources, sources that are renewable, sources that do not emit gases that cause climate change," Orlove said. "In the short term we have to find adaptations, like installing early warning systems for disasters in the most sensitive areas."

Melting glaciers pose threat beyond water scarcity: floods

 

[LaDexter]

And here's what's happening in your neck of the woods....


Nashville - 4th straight summer that did not hit 100 - cooler than normal winter


There is what you observe, and then there is this bull that the rest of the world is "record warm" even if your area isn't...

 

[jc456]

By that same standard, we can't absolutely say smoking causes cancer.

You inconsistent demand for absolute certainty only in this case is what's nonsense, and you know it.

who cares. stay on topic.