Now that we have the entire month of July recorded and charted, it turns out it wasn't even the warmest JULY on record, just as I expected:
July 2019 Was Not the Warmest on Record
Excerpt:
July 2019 was probably the 4th warmest of the last 41 years. Global “reanalysis” datasets need to start being used for monitoring of global surface temperatures.
We are now seeing news reports (e.g.
CNN,
BBC,
Reuters) that July 2019 was the hottest month on record for global average surface air temperatures.
One would think that the very best data would be used to make this assessment. After all, it comes from official government sources (such as NOAA, and the World Meteorological Organization [WMO]).
But current official pronouncements of global temperature records come from a fairly limited and error-prone array of thermometers which were never intended to measure global temperature trends. The global surface thermometer network has three major problems when it comes to getting global-average temperatures:
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UAH satellite data shows a
COOLING of .09C from June to July.
UAH Global Temperature Update for July, 2019: +0.38 deg. C
The media lies a lot.....