2010 on track for warmest year on record

[Quixote1818]

Source: The Washington Post

2010 on track for warmest year on record


Consistent with what NASA scientists projected earlier this year, 2010 is currently on track to be the warmest year since global instrumental records began in the late 1800s. According to recently released data from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), April 2010 was the warmest April on record, beating out 1998 for the title, and the period from January to April was the warmest such period on record.



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[liberal N proud]

1. I have an idea - We can turn the gulf into a big deep fat fryer

Warming climate, all that oil.

:sarcasm:

[daligirl519]

4. The ocean as a deep fryer. . .

I do love fried fish!
(Just making lemonade out of lemons)

[marybourg]

2. It was chilly in AZ all winter and hasn't hit 100 yet (notwithstanding

all the hot air)

[Doctor_J]

3. Hartmann said that April 30 ended the warmest 12 month period ever

even though Global Warming is Al Gore's moneymaking scheme :eyes:

[applegrove]

5. Winter certainly was warm here on the Ontario Quebec border. All of our

winter weather went south this year. Plus our water is quite low.

[Posteritatis]

6. Winter seemed to miss Nova Scotia almost completely

Florida and California got harsher winters in places than Halifax did for awhile.

Of course, spring's taking its sweet time showing up. We spent most of May so far barely squeaking into the double-digits; today was the first May-like day we've had.

I'm glad I'm not in London this summer at least; the summer in that part of Ontario was completely brutal to me when I was there.

[applegrove]

7. I love Halfax. Lived there twice in my life. I always felt it was sorta magical.

[GliderGuider]

12. I grew up in London

I agree that summers there are brutal. Between the humidity and the pervasive smog the air quality just sucks. My parents still live there and there are weeks in the summer when my 85-year-old mother can't go outdoors. I now live in Ottawa, where the summers are much better, thankfully.

[Odin2005]

8. It's only May, but it feels like summer here in Fargo!

I'm waiting impatiently for my apartment building to be switched from heat to A/C.

[joshcryer]

9. Been tracking it all year:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=228692&mesg_id=228692

By June it will set the record, unless a massive cooling event occurs (major major volcanic eruption, or asteroid impact).

[The Croquist]

11. The UAH satellite data agrees that the first four months of 2010 has been hot.

It lists it as second to 1998 at +0.60125 versus +0.65825 but there are indications that things are changing. The El Nino is weakening and that will ease things. Dr. Roy Spencer has an article on it on his blog:

http://www.drroyspencer.com/2010/05/el-nino-rapidly-fading-la-nina-just-around-the-corner/

I like his conclusion:

There are at least three ways to interpret this excursion from the average relationship seen in the plot. One is that longer-term warming, whether natural or anthropogenic, has raised the temperature ‘baseline’ about which the El Nino/La Nina events oscillate.

A second possibility is that we are in for continued rapid cooling in the Pacific as the SSTs fall to values more consistent with the SOI index.

A third is that the current excursion toward La Nina territory is going to reverse, and SOI values will decrease to more neutral conditions, while SSTs remain relatively high.

As is always the case, all we can do is sit back and watch.

[jimlup]

10. Though it is not science in and of itself ...

It will make the current popular meme that the "scientists are wrong about AGW" be reconsidered by many.