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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe are SO screwed: ‘Never seen anything like this before’: 2015 set to be hottest year on record
Thats what Jessica Blunden, a climate scientist with the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), told the New York Times in an interview following the agencys release on Wednesday of new figures showing that last month was the hottest September since records began and offered further confirmation that 2015 is on track to be the hottest year experienced in modern human history.
Dr. Blunden pointed the Times to measurements in several of the worlds ocean basins, where surface temperatures are as much as three degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average, an increase described as substantial given the large size of these areas. Were seeing it all across the Indian Ocean, in huge parts of the Atlantic Ocean, in parts of the Arctic oceans, she said. The bottom line, she added: the world is warming.
As Andrea Thompson at Climate Central notes, the findings show that September 2015 was not only the hottest September on record for the globe, but it was warmer than average by a bigger margin than any of the 1,629 months in [NOAAs records]thats all the way back to January 1880.
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workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)at the end of October.
Average temp for this area is 66, we are running about 10 deg warmer than that. High today forecasted at 75.
Ghost in the Machine
(14,912 posts)in September, and just about every night this month. We usually don't have to turn the heat until about now to the beginning of November. We've already had temps in the low 30 to mid 30's, and had our first frost advisory last Sunday night! It was 44 degrees at 9:30 this morning, up to 56 now.
Peace,
Ghost
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)The El Nino is supposed to give us a warmer winter this year, I guess its working. I miss the cool temps of fall myself.
lisby
(408 posts)Our summers are getting colder and colder and out winters longer and harsher. Looks like we're going into the Ice Age here.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)like we swapped climates or something.
Summer has always been pretty miserable here, hot and humid, but its like we are not getting fall weather anymore.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,112 posts)Read about what it with excellent graphics:
http://climate.nasa.gov/
MineralMan
(146,287 posts)May set a record here.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)Its been cold since last winter with another brutal one forecast.
librechik
(30,674 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,894 posts)frizzled
(509 posts)nt
LuckyTheDog
(6,837 posts)tclambert
(11,085 posts)I see the catastrophe coming. Oil company executives, however, won't listen to me. What with their wealth and power, they can buy way more influence with politicians.
Not sure it's really stupidity in their case, either. I think they know. I think they have chosen their own greed over the potential ruin of human civilization. Maybe that is a form of stupidity. Or maybe it is just plain evil.
frizzled
(509 posts)In aggregate we're no smarter about choking to death on our own waste than yeast in a jar.
They are waiting for us: the mammoths, the last Siberian Tiger and the Tasmanian Wolf and the Tasmanians, the Caribs, and the other billions of lives we can erase and avenge and join, with a single step, over the cliff, a few seconds of rushing air, and then Nirvana.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)that temps peaked ten or so years ago.
What part of each year being the new hottest year on record do they miss?
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)DrBulldog
(841 posts). . . now we can all move to Canada to stay cool in a much more progressive nation. Ahhhh ... the beaches of Hudson Bay . . .
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)But just for a little while. They are gonna burn up right along with everything else.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)We are screwed.
I don't think humans will go extinct, but we are ruining big chunks of habitable Earth and there will be increasing famine, warring for fresh water and other resources, etc.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)it is not happening in the USA. Most people will not even know about it if it is treated like other huge storms.
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)I live in Florida and I keep wondering when the big one is coming for us! The next one will make Hurricane Andrew look like a gentle breeze.
LuckyTheDog
(6,837 posts)I have been to that part of Mexico. I hope the folks there heed the call to evacuate.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)I hate it.
Punx
(446 posts)Is running over 5 degrees above the average for October. And rainfall has been below normal the whole year for the most part.
The last 20 months we have been over 3 degrees warmer than average. We have had one monthly period with below average temps and that was a paltry -.2 degrees Fahrenheit. We have had atypically severe forest fires here as well.
And the thing is, current temps may be affected by the El-Nino, but the last 20 months have not.
Thav
(946 posts)that'll prove global warming is a myth.
olddots
(10,237 posts)To be less screwed by climate change when there are 7 billion humans to feed and shelter .We know what we are doing wrong so how do we stop it ?
6chars
(3,967 posts)We could have a lot fewer than 7 billion humans to worry about.
http://www.utne.com/science-and-technology/10-billion-years-from-now-zm0z15fzsau.aspx
jwirr
(39,215 posts)storms, disease, floods, earthquakes, failed crops, water shortages, drought, etc. and as they continue the population is going to decrease.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)That photo of the Camel in the desert may as well be parts of Southern California.. and parts of Northern as well.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)The temp is dropping much slower this time.
The low 80s is considered "cool" here.