Surface air temperature for June 2021

https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temperature-june-2021

by gmays • 5 years ago

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CalRobert• 5 years ago

Deeply worrying. And it looks like we might get a new world record on Sunday in Death Valley.

brailsafe2• 5 years ago

Parts of the pacific northwest beat out Death Valley on certain days in June

flukus• 5 years ago

And they had much higher humidity. From Australia I normally LOL at a northern hemisphere "heatwave", but that recent heat dome was crazy.

mandliya• 5 years ago

I am not sure what more evidence of global warming the lawmakers need to treat it as global threat and take strong actions.

incrudible12• 5 years ago

I don't need evidence that the planet is warming, I need a cost/benefit analysis of what meaningful impact (if any) such "strong actions" could possibly have on this trend.

During the last century, CO2 emissions have been steadily rising year-over-year, in line with population growth across the globe. Given that this trend is now stalling naturally, the warming trend should follow suit. This leads me to the question: How bad is the "do literally nothing" scenario really?

_y5hn8• 5 years ago

What makes you believe temperature isn't accellerating? CO2 in the atmosphere won't go away on its own for hundreds of years, and trapping more and more heat will have exponential effects leading to chaotic climate instability. CO2 is not declining, even in the pandemic year it is still rising sharply way beyond extreme levels for tens of thousands of years: https://www.co2levels.org/

Please see David Attenborough's "A life on our planet" (Netflix) what exactly may happen and what to do before it's too late: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KglanVLBVrc

nharada2• 5 years ago

Given that this trend is now stalling naturally, the warming trend should follow suit

Even a cursory argument should make it obvious this is untrue: CO2 is cumulative, so emitting the same amount year over year will continue increasing warming.

bamboozled4• 5 years ago

When people die, the carbon they emitted stays in the atmosphere, they don't take it to heaven with them.

wolverine8763• 5 years ago

I haven't seen anyone say that the end of population growth will stop the growth in climate emissions. I have seen it almost universally said that the growth in people with a certain level of wealth (e.g., enough to buy energy-consuming technology such as refrigerators and cars) does cause climate emissions to grow.

vegetablepotpie• 5 years ago

Evidence that their constituents care and that their donors don’t have qualms with taking action.

bamboozled4• 5 years ago

At what state do the donors realize they're doomed too?

It's not like the people who like climate change driving activity are living on a different planet.

fletchowns• 5 years ago

The last two US presidential elections and the way the US population handled Covid has really left me thinking that we're doomed when it comes to global warming.

wolverine8763• 5 years ago

I will say this: The opposition wants you to think that and to spread it to others. They mean to look implacable - not a novel negotiating strategy, if you think of it.

I think if we got disarmed their narrative of power and implacability, and realized our own power, the issue would be settled promptly. The truth is, most Americans are concerned about climate change and have been for awhile.

squarefoot• 5 years ago

I believe pretty much every politician in the world, no matter their political side, would do the same. Politicians either do nothing or do too little when it comes to solving problems having very long lifespans, the reason being the need for immediate public approval; every action would require loads of money spent now on something whose results would be visible in decades, long after they would seek for a re/election.

tgsovlerkhgsel• 5 years ago

The scales on the diagrams are interesting: The global anomaly is small in absolute numbers, but the Europe anomaly is several degrees!

throwaway888abc• 5 years ago

Recently have been looking for good real time temperature map with models and stumbled over Ventusky

https://www.ventusky.com/?p=13;-8;1&l=temperature-2m&t=20210...

Can be handy for your area

briantakita• 5 years ago

In the meantime, July 2021 high temperatures are below December 2020 highs in the Northeast. Glad I'm in the red zone. Now where is my jacket?

lxe• 5 years ago

The tabs are so confusing: they switch the reference average, not the period. So if you use a 1981-2010 average as a reference, the anomalies are higher. A tab UI is probably not the best for this.

LifeIsThermal• 5 years ago

And still the average temperature from raw data shows cooling for recent years. It´s a big problem when data is adjusted to show a trend that isn´t there anymore.

http://temperature.global/

Also, have a look at the climategate-scandal to see the mindset of the scientists behind the adjustments of raw data sets to show warming where there is none.

https://pdf4pro.com/amp/view/the-climategate-emails-lavoisie...

Here´s some quotes from the link:

“I’ve just completed Mike’s [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s [Briffa] to hide the decline.”

—Dr. Phil Jones, Director of the Climatic Research Unit, disclosed Climategate e-mail, Nov. 16, 1999

“Also we have applied a completely artificial adjustment to the data after 1960, so they look closer to observed temperatures than the tree-ring data actually were…”

—Dr. Tim Osborn, Climatic Research Unit, disclosed Climategate e-mail, Dec. 20, 2006

“…If you look at the attached plot you will see that the land also shows the 1940s warming blip (as I’m sure you know). So, if we could reduce the ocean blip by, say 0.15 deg C, then this would be significant for the global mean—but we’d still have to explain the land blip…”

—Dr. Tom Wigley, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, on adjusting global temperature data, disclosed Climategate e-mail to Phil Jones, Sep. 28, 2008

“We, therefore, do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (i.e. quality controlled and homogenized) data.”

—Climatic Research Unit web site, the world’s leading provider of global temperature data, admitting that it can’t produce the original thermometer data, 2011

_y5hn8• 5 years ago

I don't see cooling, I see 5 yr trend being warming and 2021's 12M average not done yet. Averages are slower and can hide information, though new records will arrive next year when whole 2021 is accounted for. Earliest signal due in 6 months after July 2021.

Longer term graphs should raise concern for existing life today:

https://johnenglander.net/chart-of-420000-year-history-tempe...

And why: https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

Surface air temperature for June 2021

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