so I suppose that you agree that august 2014 was not even
close to being a hottest on record type of month since records
have been being recorded in the ice cores.
....Right, this is comparing months “…during the period 1951-1980.”
“Last month was the hottest April on record globally ...by the largest margin ever....” …the hottest April on record globally – and the seventh month in a row to have broken global temperature records.
…the global temperature of land and sea was 1.11C [2F] warmer in April than
the average temperature for April during the period 1951-1980.
The new record broke the previous one …set in 2010, at 0.87C above the baseline average for April.
It makes three months in a row that the monthly record has been
broken by the largest margin ever,
and seven months in a row that are at least 1C above the 1951-80 mean for that month.
When the string of record-smashing months started in February, scientists began talking about a “climate emergency”.
Decline of Arctic Ice continues ahead of predictions:
...
plus:“Early start to Greenland Ice Sheet melt season” “Early melt events are important as they lower the surface albedo by increasing the snow grain size. A lower albedo allows for more absorption of the sun’s energy, fostering more ice melt.”
“Such an event is unusual but not unprecedented; the record surface melt season of 2012 began in a similar manner.”
“
These warm April conditions follow on the warmest winter (January 1 to March 31, 2016)
recorded for the Arctic.”
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also , I would like to point out again that all of the charts
and the data that these charts are made from all show that the
co2 increases follow temperature increases.
....Right, the scientists know about that, Paul,
and how that is caused by orbital changes—Milankovitch cycle—
which
should be sending us back into an ice age.
But extra CO2 (and methane, which converts into CO2 after a few years) has been
offsetting the normal cooling pattern. There is now more than enough greenhouse effect to
override the cooling part of the orbital cycle,
as well as amplify any warming side of the orbital cycle.
...and still, in the cryosphere, the reflective ice continues diminishing:
Arctic sea ice coverage is shrinking so drastically …had to redraw atlas maps.“Arctic sea ice coverage is shrinking so drastically that last August,
National Geographic had to redraw its atlas maps.”
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