That was obvious from the graph of global mean temperatures. The offical announcement:

Quote:


https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20180118/

The recovery from the 2016 El Nino was half the recovery from the 1998 El Nino.

The monthly global mean temperature graph can be here: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/

Temperature map:

cods wrote on Jan 19^th, 2018 at 10:17am:


Seems really mild this year, but maybe that's because I got my full ducted air-con installed. Has it been a bit warm?

Gordon wrote on Jan 19^th, 2018 at 10:20am:

there might come a time if warming is actually happening that we wont be allowed to run refrigerated A/C- then what will you do Gordy ?

cods wrote on Jan 19^th, 2018 at 10:30am:

We will need air conditioned space suits with a trolley to carry the air conditioner on to get around and play tennis.

Yes, I should have realised that.

BoM “Climate 2016” did point out that La Nina years are now hotter than El Nino years used to be not all that long ago.

Jovial Monk wrote on Jan 19^th, 2018 at 9:17am:


2017 is second hottest year.

Oh dear. Gone from your beloved NOAA, which rated 2017 third, to NASA, which according to some, regarding the Roberts interview, doesn't do climate.

I guess you change your mind to suit the "data" set that best suits you.

Hot in Adelaide:

Quote:


https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2018/01/19/victoria-cool-change-other-s...

As AGW keeps warming the planet its effects become widespread, one such effect being winters getting shorter.

These shorter winters and decreased snow mean the popular sport/hobby in Vermont of snowmobiling is in danger—not enough snow!

https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/01/warming-weather-threatens-a-vermo...

lee wrote on Jan 19^th, 2018 at 9:25pm:


do now is show the figure that is above 1997


The report you normally use to show this explains that it was measured differently and is not a valid comparison. That year rates about 15 or more now. The hottest year is 2016. Second 2017 third 2015 fourth 2014.

So if 2016 was the hottest and 2017 was the second hottest,,, we are heading in the right direction trend wise

A lot of figures being bandied about, try going outside during summer over the last decade and see for yourselves, melt down is possible.

Its OK JV

I was being flippant, its all I can do in the face of the facts.

Its how we cope sometimes

Johnnie wrote on Jan 21^st, 2018 at 5:21pm:



How much warming over the last decade? 0.2C?

Jovial Monk wrote on Jan 21^st, 2018 at 5:49pm:



It will be more fullfilling and personally rewarding if you spend your time growing some nice home grown veges and sharing them with your neighbors,  they'll appreciate it a lot more than banging on and on and on about this global warming nonsence.

Johnnie wrote on Jan 19^th, 2018 at 10:27am:


Having grown up in an era where shade and a breeze was the only way to keep cool, I have to wonder what kind of ice planet you grew up on before you moved to Earth? And did you have to ride around on tauntauns and avoid ice creatures as you traveled from cave to cave? Before we had an airconditioner installed, we would tough out heat wave with nothing more than cold showers and keeping hydrated.

Needing to use an airconditioner so much that you think you will need an even bigger airconditioner under some misinformed idea that the world is getting hotter, that kind of leaves me wondering how pampered you were as a child. Don't get me wrong. If you really were brought up in a upper-middle class family where access to airconditioning was the norm, then good onya. But thinking that you live on Tattooine because the media tells you make-believe stories about heat waves being more and more frequent, I think you need to use your airconditioner less and just acclimatise better to the change in season. Maybe you are one of those city slickers in one of the temperate regions of Australia, and can't handle anything over 30 degree C in summer, and shiver so much in winter that spring and summer are just too difficult to handle.

here let me fix the topic...

2017 is the 2nd hottest year on record according to the latest parameters used by people making this claim.