Posted on 08/15/2023 11:31:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
Aug. 14 (UPI) -- July was the hottest month on record in 143 years, as Americans felt "the effects of the climate crisis," scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York announced Monday.
According to NASA, July 2023 was on average 0.43 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than any other July on record. It was also 2.1 degrees warmer than the average July between 1951 and 1980, according to GISS which defines "normal" temperatures as lasting several decades, typically 30 years. The five hottest Julys since 1880 have all occurred in the past five years, NASA says.
"This July was not just warmer than any previous July -- it was the warmest month in our record, which goes back to 1880," NASA's GISS Director Gavin Schmidt said.
"The science is clear this isn't normal. Alarming warming around the world is driven primarily by human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. And that rise in average temperature is fueling dangerous extreme heat that people are experiencing here at home and worldwide," Schmidt added.
Some parts of the world were hotter than others and experienced temperatures around 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit above average. Tens of millions of people in parts of North America, South America, North Africa and the Antarctic Peninsula spent July under heat warnings, as hundreds suffered heat-related illnesses and deaths.
"Climate change is impacting people and ecosystems around the world, and we expect many of these impacts to escalate with continued warming," said Katherine Calvin, chief scientist and senior climate advisor at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Last week, the European Union's climate monitor also called July 2023 the hottest month around the globe with 29 of the warmest days ever recorded.
Copernicus, which tracks worldwide climate data for the EU, said daily surface air temperatures have risen drastically since 1940 with 2023 being the hottest summer on record.
NASA blames high sea surface temperatures and El Niño in the eastern tropical Pacific for contributing to July's record heat. NASA expects to see the biggest impacts of El Niño -- which can cause severe storms in some areas and drought in others -- in February, March and April of 2024.
"Since day one, President Biden has treated the climate crisis as the existential threat of our time," said Ali Zaidi, White House National Climate Advisor. "Against the backdrop of record high temperatures, wildfires and floods, NASA's analysis puts into context the urgency of President Biden's unprecedented climate leadership."
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson agreed, in a post on X.
"NASA data confirms what billions around the world literally felt: temperatures in July 2023 made it the hottest month on record. In every corner of the country, Americans are right now experiencing firsthand the effects of the climate crisis, underscoring the urgency of President Biden's historic climate agenda," Nelson said.
"The science is clear. We must act now to protect our communities and planet; it's the only one we have."
There are now expanding thier cherry picked data sets. The first went back to 1979. Then it was 1940. Now, they are reaching waaayyyy back to 1880.
underwater eruptions of volcanoes have put more watervapor into the atmosphere... and NASA puts hot air into the atmostFEAR.
Hungatonga Burnin’ Love.
Beat me to it did you?
It added 10% more water vapor into the upper atmosphere. That vapor encircled the whole earth within a few short weeks. It caused flooding in Australia. It will, and is, causing wild weather swings globally.
This spring here in the Southwest, they set a record of the number of consecutive days BELOW 100 degrees. It also set a record for the number of days ABOVE 110 in Phoenix AZ.
This weekend in NW AZ, we will go from above 100, Friday, to highs of 80 or 81 by Sunday. Is that a wild swing in weather? I would say so.
Per what the result would be from that volcano..they had a serious argument of what would happen to our weather as a result. They..meaning the climate scientists..the REAL ones. Not the fake ones.
143 years so it’s happened many times before ,D’oh
The Tonga Eruption, which flung the equivalent of lake Erie into the stratosphere, is to blame.
Just wear a mask and get the “vaccines” ... oh, wait, that was Existential Threat Part 1 ...
How do they measure global average temperature? Or do they just calculate it, with a liberal dash of modeling sprinkled in?
How did they measure global average temperature back in 1880?
so we set a 140 year temperature record... big whoop
The warmest day in Pittsburgh in January was January 25, 1950.
So what?
Climate is constantly changing, and temperatures are too.
In 2 economic slowdowns in last 20 years, 2008 and 2020/2021 where human C02 emissions dropped by a 1/3 in both cases, there was no effect detected on climate trends in the near or longer term..
Humans definitely are having an impact on the planet, but climate change driven by us? IF we are at all its so insignificant its laughable.
Of course the climate is changing. It is ALWAYS changing. It gets warmer, it gets cooler.
Well, it isn’t around my neck of the woods.
Middle of August and we haven’t broken a hundred yet,
here in N. Ga.
I’m so sorry to hear all of you are voting Democrat in the next election. ;)
So they set the worlds forests on fire and people don’t realize that will cause “Desert” problems. But the deep state knows exactly what they are doing.
You don’t even need science to figure this out. Just trying walking into a forest on a hot day and notice how much the temperature drops. Anyone who believe the climate effect of a large forest is limited to the area of the forest is not very bright.
Just got our electricity bill yesterday.
They have graphs for current and previous year/month electricity consumption.
Last summer we used 50% more electricity/air conditioning than this summer.
Not buying the “hottest month on record” unless they are using the Michael Mann falsify-the-data “scientific” method.
But that changed in the 1990's when Clinton and Gore changed how government money funded climate "research" and required the hockey stick belief. Basically, we have to now pretend we never knew about prior warming periods. You can't be part of the research cult and be published and get grant money if you speak blasphemy.
>>NASA is supposed to be focused on space, and I can assure you, space has not gotten one degree warmer.
Maybe time to clip NASA’s budget by 50% or more if they have enough time to waste on things like this.
I’ve lived within a few miles of where I was born for almost 70 years.
We’ve had many Summers like this - and I never had air conditoning at home until I was almost 50.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Joke from my childhood in the ‘50s.....
What’s the product of 6 x 9?
Schoolteacher: “54”
Engineer: (whips out slide rule) “it’s about 54”
Statistician: “What do you want it to be?”
BS___fu NASA
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