On Fox News site: January 2010 Was ‘Hottest’ Ever for World
January 2010 was the world’s warmest January since satellite tracking began in 1979. Hard to appreciate in Washington, D.C., NY and the capitals of Europe, which have experienced remarkably wintery weather. But NY is not the world, as hard as that is to believe for New Yorkers and the NY-based national media. And the worldwide average last month made it the wamest January on record.
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“Last November was the hottest November we’ve ever seen, November-January as a whole is the hottest November-January the world has seen,” he said of the satellite data record since 1979.
The World Meteorological Organization said in December that 2000-2009 was the hottest decade since records began in 1850, and that 2009 would likely be the fifth warmest year on record. WMO data show that eight out of the 10 hottest years on record have all been since 2000.
Two truths for the day: Weather is not climate. A cold winter in one area of the world doesn’t debunk science.
Filed under: Global Warming • Jim
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The hottest November “we’ve ever seen” when looking at a satellite data record since 1979? Was it the hottest we’ve ever seen or the hottest we’ve seen since 1979? Considering the claim is that humans have affected climate on a global scale, due to the industrial age, wouldn’t it be prudent to get a good handle on climate history prior to 1800? If we’re going to make claims about what is happening now, on an enormously complex system such as climate patterns, then we should be making comparisons across datasets which are essentially like for like in scope. If the error-bars for our data, prior to 1800, expands, then we’re left with extrapolating conclusions from the data. Extrapolating what may happen in the near future, from essentially late-term point records over a large timescale, can be very tricky.
Yes, weather is not climate, but average climate patterns are made up of a plethora of points on a timescale stretching over eons.