The July heat wave that wilted crops, shriveled rivers and fueled wildfires officially went into the books Wednesday as the hottest single month on record for the continental United States.
The average temperature across the Lower 48 was 77.6 degrees Fahrenheit, 3.3 degrees above the 20th-century average, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration reported. That edged out the previous high mark, set in 1936, by two-tenths of a degree, NOAA said.
U.S. forecasters started keeping records in 1895. The seven months of 2012 to date are the warmest of any year on record and were drier than average as well, NOAA said.
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We're going off a cliff, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Not Obama. Not Romney. Not any green technology.
not really.
you may be right, China and India are just ramping up.
Youre most likely right.
I'll bet we've already passed the point of no return.
But let the politicians debate it....keeps them from creating other problems....
In the past, there has been a sudden 8°C drop into an Ice Age
The 1,050 year cycle will peak near the end of this century.
(other cycles have turned negative - 60 - 200 - 5,000 - 100,000)
Give me a break and everyone else with the doomsday nonsense.
All they need is to start watering them crops like we water our grass dont depend on Mother Nature.
They already do that, but the water comes from irrigation canals, which are refilled by rain. You seem pretty clueless.
Chicken are fed on corn.
Read Revelations.. People will have strange visions in the end times and the weather patterns will change drastically.. Like cows on billboards painting signs persuading you to eat more chicken when it is 110 degree heat index outside
Earth is what, 4-5 billion years old? And we set a record for the most recent 127 years. Yeah!!!
what about the trend... and other evidence.... a lot of consecutive hot years have actually made it possible to sail through the northwest passage above canada... for the first time.
I'm sure these "scientists" don't have any political leanings and do not have their own best interests (ie getting more funding from uncle sam so they can continue living the lifestyle they are now accustomed to) in mind.
The best way to do this is cause a panic in the general population, the sky is falling everyone!
Nevermind those record temps from 1936......
dude:
And I'm sure all the right wing commentators are much more qualified to assess the situation than those ....."Scientists' are...
Thermometers sure don't have any political leanings, and that's what this is based on.
And what would you know of being a "scientist" and their "lifestyles"?
That's what the oil interests are saying so you can ignore thier findings! Wake Up!
Do you know any scientists? Living in their oppulent style? Waiting to defraud simpletons like you? I think not.
I guess if the deniers can make fun of the global warming / man-made climate change claims, than we can make fun of the wildfires in Colorado, Texas, midwest drought and crop loss, and those impacted by severe storms and tornadoes.
But we won't, because we're not arrogant fools like the deniers.
You might want to check the news stories about those fires. Those bleeding hearts LOVE to make fun of the people who have just had their whole lives turned upside down....
@Philip "Recall the politicians who blamed the hole in our ozone layer on us. Now we know that without that natural hole that was burned into our atmosphere eons ago, life itself would not be possible."
Whatever your smokin Philip, I want some. You've got it backward. If the ozone layer did not exist, we would all be getting fried with cosmic rays and life would NOT be possible like on Mars. Please educate yourself.
Life was in the ocean until the build up of the ozone made land based life possible.
HA HA HA. I remember learning that in University... The high number and concentration of methane producing farm animals has been shown to have a serious impact on the environment!! I think we should write all these animals a strongly worded letter!
We are getting more radiation from the sun lately...That heats up our ocean and that heats up our atmosphere....but we also as humans have changed the atmosphere with our technology, our power plants, our vehicles, our cutting down of vast forests...our large herds....Most scientist have agreed on the real effects of global warming..just look at our ice fields, our receding glaciers...Many photos from 100 years ago by explorers show the big difference between then and now...Photos do not lie...
Being a global warming denier is one thing.
Being so lazy you don't want to even want to try to combat unhealthy temps is another.
I combat the temps by cranking up my AC then opening all of the doors in my house.
Mankinds pollution did not cause global climate change. Our pollution has made shade over water, and so for the past 100-plus years, it has been taking water longer and longer anounts of time to evaporate. (pan-evap rate)
Evaporating water is the engine that drives our weather, not our climate. Water that used to evaporate at a natural rate used to fall on Colorado, for example. Now, a lot of it falls on the Pacific thanks to water evaporating more slowly.
Global climate change is natural. Man's polluting of this earth has only taken a natural and slow event and changed it into one with violent weather extremes.
While there building evidence that warming is occurring recently (~100 years), given that the very expensive solutions crafted to date only reduce suggested growth rates in warming by a few tenths of a percent and represent only a few years delay in the modeled warming process it seems better to focus on reduced and more efficient energy use rather than the "global warming" message.
I can remember back to the 70's under the Peanut Boy Carter when they told us if we didn't do something SOON, NYC would be under a foot of water by 2000?
cap:
Well....we did do some things since then.....which is the reason it's not under water yet.....but it's headed in that direction.
Not enough being done.
Problem is;
Global economy.....If US cuts back on emissions China and every other developing nation MUST be held to the same standard.
Otherwise "No Dice"
To Jim: its funny. now what they did back then kept NYC from going under water?
July was the hottest on record for the United States, but we have to look at the temperatures at a global scale. The global temperature this month was much cooler than previous years.
Remember when February 2011 was one of the coldest on record and scientists said you have to look at the global temperature instead. It works the same way here!
Hey, rational thought is not allowed in here!