Mother Jones: Scary Maps of the New Climate Normal

[marmar]

Scary Maps of the New Climate Normal

— By Julia Whitty
| Wed Jul. 6, 2011 3:31 PM PDT


The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just updated its Climate Normals for the United States. Per agreement of the World Meteorological Organization, "normals" are calculated per decade, rather than per year. NOAA's latest update is crunched from weather data compiled from 1981 to 2010.

The new annual normal temperatures for the US strongly reflect a warming world.



July Maximums, 1981–2010 compared to 1971–2000.




January Minimums, 1981–2010 compared to 1971–2000. Credit: NOAA.

In the two images above you can see the differences between the old normals (1971 to 2000) and the new normals. The top image shows changes in July maximum temperatures. The bottom shows changes in January minimum temperatures. Warmer temperature changes are orange and red. Cooler temperature changes are blue. .................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/07/new-climate-normal

[SpiralHawk]

1. Republicons will no doubt crank up the corporate media lies & denial

Can't have a germ of truth getting out there to the voters. They might actually do something about this massive catastrophic global matter caused by RepubliThink & RepubliGreed, covered up and obfuscated by billions of Republicon propaganda-and-spin moneybucks.