Keeping track of global temperatures:
First half 2016
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/climate-trends-continue-to-break-recor... Quote:Two key climate change indicators -- global surface temperatures and Arctic sea ice extent -- have broken numerous records through the first half of 2016, according to NASA analyses of ground-based observations and satellite data.
Each of the first six months of 2016 set a record as the warmest respective month globally in the modern temperature record, which dates to 1880, according to scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. The six-month period from January to June was also the planet's warmest half-year on record, with an average temperature 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.4 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the late nineteenth century.
First half 2017
Quote:“Personally, I wasn’t expecting it to be as warm as it has been,” Ahira Sanchez-Lugo, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate scientist, said in an email. “After the decline of the strong El Niño I was expecting the values to drop a bit and rank among the top five warmest years. This year has been extremely remarkable.”
The odds are good that 2017 will stay in second place through the end of the year, and it is even more likely that it will remain in at least the top three hottest years.
NOAA released its global temperature data for June on Tuesday, and ranked June as the third warmest in its records. The four warmest Junes in its records have all happened in the past four years. (NASA, which released its June numbers on Friday, ranked June as the fourth hottest. The two agencies handle the data slightly differently, which can lead to small differences in their rankings, though they strongly agree on recent warming.)
The hotspots around the world for June included central Asia and western and central Europe. A searing heatwave in western Europe that helped fuel deadly wildfires in Portugal was made up to 10 times more likely because of Earth’s rising temperature, according to a recent study done in partnership with Climate Central.
The U.S. Southwest was another standout, with a heatwave that pushed temperatures so high they prevented some airplanes from taking off at Phoenix’s airport.
Every month of the year so far, including June, has ranked in the top three hottest for that month. Overall, the first six months of the year were 1.64 degrees F (0.91 degrees C) above the 20th century average of 56.3 degrees F (13.5 degrees C), according to NOAA. They were 0.29 degrees F (0.16 degrees C) behind the same period in 2016, which turned out to be hottest year on record, but ahead of 2015 by 0.09 degrees F (0.05 degrees C).
According to NASA, the first six months were 1.64 degrees F above the 1951–1980 average.
http://grist.org/article/the-first-half-of-2017-was-the-second-hottest-to-date/
OK, by passing all the irrelevant crap and bringing this to the front again.
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