Global temperatures for February increased by, seasonally adjusted, the largest margin in over 100 years of record keeping, said National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
NASA’s data, which was released on March 12, showed that February ran 34.43 Degrees above the 30-year global average for the month. The previous record was set the month before, in January 2016. That month came in at 34.05 Degrees above the average.
February surpassed the one-month-old record by more than 0.20 degrees.
On March 11, climate scientist Dr. Benjamin Santer spoke to scores of Fresno State students about the research he’s done to measure human-caused climate change and the changes he’s witnessed in the environment over his career.
“I’ve spent the last 40 ”” 50 years in high alpine environments around the world,” Santer said, an atmospheric scientist at the San Francisco Bay Area’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. “And in addition to the scientific imperative to understand the nature and causes of climate change, I firmly believe there’s also a moral and ethical imperative to preserve these and many other high alpine places and environments for future generations.”
Santer had recently visited the Juneau icefields in Alaska in regard to some climate work, physics professor Dr. Doug Singleton said. Singleton helped organize Santer’s lecture, which was the keynote talk for the Society of Physics Students Zone 18 Meeting.
“Folks have been going to the Juneau icefields since the late 1940s to look at changes in Alaskan glaciers,” Santer said. “And if you stand there, looking down on the top of a glacier, climate change isn’t academic, it’s not some theoretical thing ”” you see evidence of change in Alaskan glaciers everywhere you look.”
The arctic regions have been among the hardest hit by rising temperatures, said Santer, who was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for his research.
“Over one human lifetime, I’ve witnessed profound changes in some of these places,” he said. “Some of the glaciers I stood on in the Alps are very, very different.”
Some glaciers have lost up to 75 gigatons of ice since the year 2000, Santer said.
Changes in the environment haven’t been linked to just temperature.
On March 9, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a report titled, “Record annual increase of carbon dioxide observed at Mauna Loa for 2015.” It’s stating that carbon dioxide levels measured at Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory have risen in 2015 by the largest year-to-year margin since 1998.
JohnG123 • Mar 27, 2016 at 3:17 pm
Man made global warming/Climate change theory is best described as ” a beggar, wrapped in purple, whom ignorant people mistook for a king.” Their theory is a mass of errors and deceptive ideas and opposed to common sense. It is like we are watching an episode of TreeHuggers Gone Wild.
In reality, the earth’s greenhouse effect is a good thing. If not for the greenhouse effect, earth’s average surface temperature would be -18°C (Celsius), or -40°F (Fahrenheit). Instead, our planet exists at a livable 15°C, or 59°F.
The weather system of Earth is self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing.
Even if CO2 had an effect, the idea that Man’s 4% or .00156% of total CO2flux rules the other natural 96%(0.039) flux in and out of sea/land requires a conspiracy of nature to follow man’s activity. This is deranged. It follows War should be declared on termites which emit 10x Man’s CO2 equivalent.
CO2 constitutes only 0.039 percent of air. CO2 is a harmless, trace gas. It is necessary for life ”“ just as oxygen and nitrogen are. It is a natural gas , and it is in no way a pollutant. There is no evidence that CO2 has caused the temperature to change in the past. All studies of temperature and CO2 levels in the past show that it is the temperature changing which changes the CO2 level and not the other way round.
If you want to know what controls the weather on Earth, look up in the sky, it is called the Sun. The Sun is Prime mover of the weather.
You will recall there was an Ice age 12000 years ago, or glacial period. The last glaciation centered on the , Laurentide Ice Sheet , was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square miles, including most of Canada and a large portion of the Northern United States . It went away without any help from man.
ozonator • Mar 15, 2016 at 10:24 pm
Deniers got a completely different result – after leaving out the CO2 graph.
Watts-type deniers showed 2 graphs, poorly defined, none showing CO2, with the 1st one of 2015 ocean surface temperatures showing a small portion of heating and the 2nd one, with the beautiful Lynin’ Ryan Maue’s name on it, starting before October 2014 and ending on after January 2016, with increasing global temperatures since April of 2015 to the present. Thus, claims of El Nino driving the entire worldwide increase of air temperatures would be comparable to claiming the nuclear meltdown from TEPCO resulted in all nuclear power plants melting down. “One graph proves that record high year of 2015 and record months of 2016 are not AGW driven … Anthony Watts … Dr Ryan Maue of Weatherbell follows the data, wherever that data leads him. He’s not shy of telling it like it is. Yesterday he released what I consider the most important graph of the year. … this graph indisputably proves that the El Niño is the driver of record high temperatures, not carbon dioxide. … Pretty definitive, in my opinion” (t-Tony ‘who has a mother who must lament the more moral cancer sticks and drug resistant diseases’ Watts; bilking the senile, enjoying legal terrorism, and trickling down an environmentally racist oligarchy and kleptocracy at ninny wattsupwiththat.com – will be treated as an AGW enemy combatant by many countries).