9th Warmest Summer Temperatures Since 1880
Tuesday September 16, 2008
Taking the temperature of Earth is not an easy task. Requirements include space technology, computer technology, and human interpretation of data. Looking at the summer temperatures around the globe for 2008, NOAA has determined average land and ocean temperatures were the 9th warmest since records began in 1880. In addition, August was the tenth warmest on record. What does it all mean? As it turns out, several key climate indicators are used to determine the impact of climate on the socioeconomic sectors of the United States...more.
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Please. How many summers were hotter PRIOR to 1880? Our world has been around a LOT longer than 140 years. Its actually somewhere on the order of FOUR BILLION years old..
When someone can provide the stats for those 4 billion previous summers, then we’ll debate trends. Until then, there is little point other than firing up the global warming hoaxters in providing what “rank” the summer’s heat was.
Hey, we’re in an inter-glacial warming period. The Earth would be getting warmer even if there were no people on Earth. That is if the Earth was not going into another glacial period as was predicted only a few years ago.
The only constant on the Earth’s climate is that the climate is always changing.
According to my electric bills, the period mid-August through mid-October was 3 degrees F cooler than in 2007 in New Hampshire. I notice that the 8 years that had hotter summers since 1880 were not listed.
10,000 years of temperature records, the length of the present interglacial period might suffice to show something significant, but 128 years? No more meaningful than my electric bill.
Showing ranking is not fuel for hoaxters…It is data. 128 years is indeed very short and even within those years, variations in instrument locations (and the quality of the instruments themselves) is also a factor. The purpose of the data is to enhance the understanding of weather and climate’s effects on socioeconomic sectors of the United States. That is what this particular ranking is about.