Record-Shattering February Warmth Bakes Alaska, Arctic 18°F Above Normal
Record-Shattering February Warmth Bakes Alaska, Arctic 18°F Above Normal
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Joe Romm Mar 13, 2016 1:05 pm
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How hot was it last month globally? It was so hot that the famed Iditarod sled race in Alaska
brought in extra snow from hundreds of miles away by train.
It was so hot that NASA
now reports that last month beat the all-time global record for hottest February by a stunning 0.85°F, when such records are usually measured in hundredths of a degree.
Global mean surface temperature (anomaly from 1951-1980 mean). NASA data (h/t
Tamino). Red dot is February.
It was so hot last month that large parts of the Arctic
averaged more than
18°F (10°C) above normal. Not only did last month easily set the record for lowest February Arctic sea ice extent, as the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
reported, but Arctic sea ice growth has been almost flat for over a month during a time when it normally soars to its annual maximum.
It was so hot that February had the single biggest recorded monthly temperature anomaly (deviation from the 1951-1980 average temperature) — a whopping 2.4°F (1.35°C) above the average temperature for the month. The previous record deviation from the average — 2.0°F (1.13°C) — you may recall, was set in January.
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It is becoming clear that global warming + the nino is doing some extreme stuff. We need to all agree as it is obvious.
Great news! Now weather = climate again and more places are habitable for people.
Call us when palm trees and crocodiles return to Alaska.
And still using the cherry picked data to determine the median again, love the dishonesty!
It is really amazing that you have no idea how utterly insane you always sound, WitheredMan.
Nothing in the OP even remotely hinted at your braindead comment that "Now weather = climate again".
Your crackpot conspiracy theories - "still using the cherry picked data" - about all of the world's scientists are as ridiculous and absurd as always.
How does it feel to be a retarded troll, WitheredMan? You seem to be the 'expert' on that point.
Not my fault you're an idiot at statistics.
And other things.
Not my fault you don't know your ass from a hole in the ground, WitheredMan. Too bad you are such a delusional retard! Such a shame you hallucinate that you know more about anything, including "statistics", than all of the world's actual scientists. You poor brain damaged imbecile.
Hilarious coming from the moron who thinks 1981 - 2010 represents world history.
Even more hilarious is the fact that you are so ignorant and retarded, WitheredMan, that you don't even understand what climate scientists mean by a month by month temperature baseline using the average temperature for each month over the period from 1951 to 1980, or why they measure current temperature as anomalies from the baseline temperature for that month. You are a clueless troll, putting on airs like you actually know something, when your every post demonstrates that you don't know shit from shoe polish.
Not only do you cherry pick data you cherry pick which chart I was talking about. Using 1981-2010 as a mean sea ice extent is 100% dishonest and unscientific.
More denial of reality and the fundamentals of scientific data analysis based only on your own almost complete ignorance and stupidity, and your very obvious severe affliction with the
Dunning-Kruger Effect - "
A way to summarize these results is to say that those who are truly stupid are too stupid to realize that they are stupid. As Dunning has put it, slightly less colorfully: 'If you're incompetent, you can’t know you’re incompetent.…The skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly the skills you need to recognize what a right answer even is'."
As far as using the period from 1981 to 2010 as a baseline for changes in modern ice extent, as Old Rocks just told you....
Now, silly ass, the reason for picking those dates is that is the first period that we had active satellite observation of the polar caps.
Trying to justify distorting statistics, typical unscientific cultist.
Nope! Tring to explain statistics to a demented denier cultist like you who is terminally ignorant and completely full of fraudulent mistaken bullshit.
Nobody cares about using 1981-2010 as a baseline except liars who need to lie to support their cultist views.
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Nobody" except for all of the world's scientists who use the satellite records of the Arctic to study the warming and loss of ice there.
Nobody cares about your denier cult myths and denial of reality, dumbass.
Sea ice extent records go well beyond 1981-2010.
Not satellite records. That started in 1979.
There are sea ice extent records that go back further in time, and they all show that sea ice extent was much higher and with thicker ice, the further back you go.
The records indicate that sea ice extent in the early 1950s was about 5.5 million square miles, with a lot more thick, multi-year ice. In 2012, sea ice extent reached a new record low of only 1.32 million square miles, with very little thick, multi-year ice left, and mostly thin, first-year ice.
The only reason for cherry picking those years is it distorts reality enough to support your lies.
The only reason that you jump to that conclusion, WitheredMan, is because you are a demented retard who is gullible enough to fall for really,
really crackpot conspiracy theories about all of the world's climate scientists.
Gorebal Warmers are the most unscientific people on the planet.
That must be why virtually the entire world scientific community supports the conclusions of the climate scientists.....LOLOLOL....you poor delusional denier cult retard.
Even flat earthers and man never went to the moon cults.
Your little deranged cult of AGW denial is even more crackpot than the Flat Earth Society, numbnuts!
LOLOLOLOLOL......your whole post amounts to ignorance being used to justify ignorance, and then masquerading as knowledge. You are both absurd and hilarious!
