The hottest temperature ever reliably measured recorded in Death Valley today

The ones selling the narrative aren't the scientists with petabytes of accurate, digitally recorded data showing a global warming trend over decades highly correlated to human industrial activity who also agree the temperature in 1913 was recorded inaccurately, but rather those who would point to one record from 1913, or maybe 20 records from history, to show "global warming is a myth".

owl_troupe2• 5 years ago

How, exactly, does this observation “invalidate” anything? What narrative is being sold here?

Please support statements like this with objective facts or thoughtful analysis.

WarOnPrivacy2• 5 years ago

Correcting poor data is the opposite of erasing history.

bogota2• 5 years ago

Im seeing a lot of news lately about record heat waves. Presumably this has been happening for a few years now though although I’m not sure where i could get accurate info on that. Did the media just start pushing this to the from because its now a hot button issue that is selling more clicks?

Not saying its bad if it helps us take more action against global warming its likely good. But I’m still curious.

bwship• 5 years ago

I think these are some of the highest recorded temps, like in Seattle and Portland ever. And it being July, if it is hitting record temps in California, Nevada and Arizona, then it might be a bit hotter than in years past.

owl_troupe2• 5 years ago

It’s not just a presumption and it isn’t media just “pushing this.”

https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/

Nineteen of the warmest years have occurred since 2000, with the exception of 1998. The year 2020 tied with 2016 for the warmest year on record since record-keeping began in 1880 (source: NASA/GISS). This research is broadly consistent with similar constructions prepared by the Climatic Research Unit and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

bogota2• 5 years ago

You and others have not read my comment correctly. I know this is the case. Im asking why right now it is always on the front page all of a sudden and am simply asking if this is because the frequency has increased or is because its now profitable to print.

But from your own link it is the media pushing this now. Because this was really never something you saw in the news before but all of the sudden you see it ever other day.

DoreenMichele5• 5 years ago

I'm generally pretty cynical about the news being a lot of click-bait, histrionic garbage. But in this case, the trend in reporting record-breaking heat waves seems to be rooted in the actual occurrence of record-breaking heat waves.

hattmall• 5 years ago

Isn't it strange how we keep breaking records, not just in hot but also cold, and in sports as well. I wonder what records will truly be unbroken. Perhaps the tallest person as we are able to stop the error that causes unchecked growth.

xbmcuser• 5 years ago

Its both last few years a lot of temperature records have been broken. It is also being talked about a lot more as western countries have been feeling the rise directly with the extreme heatwave in Europe 2-3 years ago, then Australia with the bush fires and now North America this year. Previously the sea water rise and global warming though they might have believed it was just a theory to most they had not felt the direct effects.

PhasmaFelis2• 5 years ago

We've been breaking heat records all over the world every year for the past two decades. This isn't new at all.

briantakita3• 5 years ago

Must be a regional phenomenon. Greenland is seeing record growth to the Surface Mass Balance (ice growth) & the eastern US is colder than average.

https://twitter.com/bogho_s/status/1413567978583601154

moultano3• 5 years ago

There's a heat dome over the west similar to the one that brought 126 degree temperatures to Canada 2 weeks ago, but less extreme. Generally, Greenland is losing gigatons of ice every year. https://arctic.noaa.gov/Portals/7/easygalleryimages/8/465/ar...

briantakita3• 5 years ago

It seems like Greenland is now accumulating gigatons of ice since bottoming out. Considering that have recently exited the Modern Warm Period, the graph you presented hitting the minimum of ice & the recent accumulation makes sense.

The weakening Geomagnetic Field strength also seems to drive the weakening jetstreams, resulting in increased polar & equatorial vortexes. Some areas are abnormally hot & some are abnormally cold.

https://news.sky.com/story/china-at-least-20-runners-die-as-...

Records are funny things, since they also depend on technology that has existed in a minuscule fraction of Earth's history to measure. Much of these advancements happened to have occurred following the Maunder Minimum, which featured "the year without a summer" into the Modern Warm Period. Now we have left the Modern Warm Period & have instability caused by the weakening Geomagnetic field, which occurs cyclically around every 12000 years.

The hottest temperature ever reliably measured recorded in Death Valley today

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