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."
Climate, by definition, is never “normal.”
Real climate scientists determine global heating and cooling by comparing the current monthly average temp to a 30 year monthly average temp, and then plotting the deviation of the current monthly temp from the 30 year average.
Only Political Scientists use actual temperatures, because actual temps have a significant risk for anomaly errors.
Actually because it happened it is “normal”.
If it’s even true.
It wasn’t, Joe Bastardi mocked them and called them out for not including the Antarctic temperatures. Pure BS!
To a liberal, history started at breakfast this morning..................
Undersea volcano. Try controlling that.
Almost true - but one problem.
1951-1980 was a 30 year span of declining temperatures!
The heat up began around 1980.
You all are too hard on NASA! Don’t you know they get their data from a VERY GOOD source?! You know, Greta Thunberg! How dare you!
The 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption was the largest eruption since Krakatoa, blasting 161m tons of water into the atmosphere. Water is the dominant greenhouse gas.
The water went through the troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere. The stratosphere and mesosphere are very cold, so there it probably turned into ice crystals in suspension.
The ISS took pictures of the Hunga Tonga eruption, so this should be no surprise to NASA.
Ah, but humans did not cause the volcano to erupt so it can’t be factored into climate change and global warming. If people recognized that bigger impact of the environment, they might dismiss human causes and demand end to this hysterical crisis.
Not as long as there's big money to be made on it.
NASA owned by the government anyone expected truth NOT.
Water vapor accounts for something like 90% of the greenhouse effect. And 99% of water vapor is from natural sources. The greenhouse effect from CO2 is about 0.25%. I think that is ALL CO2, not just manmade but I forget. Even if it was all manmade it is minimal.
I have been watching the weather forecasts, and they will always tell when a record has been broken.
But the thing is — the record has indeed been broken and it is only a degree beyond what the previous record was when it was set in 1898. So, no, it is not normal. And neither was it in 1898.
Yawn. It’s summer. It’s hot. Get over it
There was the explosion of that big undersea volcano in the South Pacific that threw thousands of tons of water into the atmosphere. At the time it was reported that the extra moisture would cause some heating.
Big Brother You will live and think exactly like we tell you.
Big Brother You will live and think exactly like we tell you.
“Undersea volcano. Try controlling that.”
Even if you stuck a 300k Nuke in the cone, all you would do is piss the volcano off.
Was it Joe and the volcano?
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