Posted on 08/02/2019 8:42:47 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
According to the new data from the World Meteorological Organization and Copernicus Climate Change Programme, July at least equalled, if not surpassed, the hottest month in recorded history. This follows the warmest ever June on record.
The data from the Copernicus Climate Change Programme, run by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, is fed into the UN system by WMO. The figures show that, based on the first 29 days of the month, July 2019 will be on par with, and possibly marginally warmer than the previous warmest July, in 2016, which was also the warmest month ever.
The latest figures are particularly significant because July 2016 was during one of the strongest occurrence of the El Niño phenomenon, which contributes to heightened global temperatures. Unlike 2016, 2019 has not been marked by a strong El Niño.
“We have always lived through hot summers. But this is not the summer of our youth. This is not your grandfather’s summer,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres, announcing the data in New York.
“All of this means that we are on track for the period from 2015 to 2019 to be the five hottest years on record. This year alone, we have seen temperature records shattered from New Delhi to Anchorage, from Paris to Santiago, from Adelaide and to the Arctic Circle. If we do not take action on climate change now, these extreme weather events are just the tip of the iceberg. And, indeed, the iceberg is also rapidly melting,” Mr Guterres said.
“Preventing irreversible climate disruption is the race of our lives, and for our lives. It is a race that we can and must win,” he underlined.
Heatwaves
Exceptional heat has been observed across the globe in recent week, with a string of European countries logging record highs temperatures that have caused disruption to transport and infrastructure and stress on people's health and the environment. As the heat dome spread northwards through Scandinavia and towards Greenland, it accelerated the already above average rate of ice melt.
“July has re-written climate history, with dozens of new temperature records at local, national and global level,” said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.
“The extraordinary heat was accompanied by dramatic ice melt in Greenland, in the Arctic and on European glaciers. Unprecedented wildfires raged in the Arctic for the second consecutive month, devastating once pristine forests which used to absorb carbon dioxide and instead turning them into fiery sources of greenhouse gases. This is not science fiction. It is the reality of climate change. It is happening now and it will worsen in the future without urgent climate action,” Mr Taalas said.
“WMO expects that 2019 will be in the five top warmest years on record, and that 2015-2019 will be the warmest of any equivalent five-year period on record. Time is running out to reign in dangerous temperature increases with multiple impacts on our planet,” he said.
Such heatwaves are consistent with what we expect from climate change and rising global temperatures.
Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom saw new national temperature records on 25 July, as weather maps were redrawn to include – for the first time – temperatures of above 40°C. Paris recorded its hottest day on record, with a temperature of 42.6 °C at 16:32, an unprecedented value since the beginning of measurements.
The heatwave was caused by warm air coming up from North Africa and Spain and this was then transported from Central Europe to Scandinavia, Norway saw new station records on 27 July, and 28 locations had “tropical nights” above 20°C. The Finnish capital Helsinki set a new station record of 33.2°C on 28 July and in the south of Finland, Porvoo saw a temperature of 33.7°C.
The anomalously high temperatures are expected to enhance melting of the Greenland ice sheet, which already saw an extensive melt episode between 11 and 20 June. The persistent high melt and runoff in the last few weeks means the season total is running near tothe 2012 record high loss, according to Polar climate scientists monitoring the Greenland ice sheet.
The station Nord, situated 900 kilometres from the North Pole, measured a temperature of 16°C and in western Greenland, the station of Qaarsut (near 71°N) recorded a temperature of 20.6°C on 30 July. At Summit Camp station, at the peak of the ice sheet and at an altitude of 3200m, a temperature of 0.0°C was measured.
“It is important to remember that that any given day or year, Greenland ice sheet surface mass budget is a result largely of weather, though with the background climate trend affecting this,” tweeted Ruth Mottram, a climate scientist with the Danish Meteorological Institute.
ETC... too much to post.
Remember. Weather is not climate unless a weather event fits the hypothesis.
It was a cool July in the Pacific Northwest.
Not record breaking around here, in Northern California.
Yes, there were some sizzlers, but nothing Death Valley-like.
It was pretty much a normal July.
Much colder winter in Phoenix than normal, summer normal or a bit cooler.
Peak has been about 115 which is normal.
So then, are we back to global warming for the summer? Then when the weather turns cooler in fall, it will he climate change again?
aka bullshite
Climate is what you expect.
Weather is what you get...........Robert Heinlein.....
The UN should pass a resolution demanding that the sun should not burn so hot.
Recorded history is about 150 years. The Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
“in recorded history”. Does that mean the satellite era which began in 1978?
I looked at the article and no where did I see the length of "recorded history" defined. I saw one mention of "a century ago". I don't think a mere 100 years of data in the time line of earth is enough to make predictions about anything.
But then again, I'm not a scientist.....
Northern Virginia pretty normal imo, two days it got over 96. That’s all folks.
I look forward to the quiet when misguided global warming alarmists are hibernating in winter in northern hemisphere.
Don’t Tell Anyone, But We Just Had Two Years Of Record-Breaking Global Cooling - 5/16/2018
Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released... 10/13/2012
It goes on and on. They do not not understand what they are seeing, only the need to seize property and enslave humanity.
Furthermore, rising AVERAGE temps is not the same number of record high temperature readings, it is the result of higher low temperatures causing the average to sway higher.
Bastardi has noted the “record heat wave” in France and its adjacent countries was dwarfed by the low temperatures around Russia and its adjacent countries over the same period. Lastly, these yahoos were proposing the number of intense typhoons last year in the Pacific were the result of Globull warming. This year there has been a record low number of these storms in the Pacific. I guess that is the result of Globull warming too, just over looked by the kooks.
34 was hot in the US, what about world average temps?
I’ll be the first to state that averaging the entire globe’s temperatures to extrapolate some kind of meaning out of it is a fool’s errand and highly fraught with error, but let’s compare the same things.
I know in Europe and such it has been unseasonably hot this year, but not so much here in the US. One would think that the averaging error would be about the same one way or the other, but the underlying data is never presented or is usually obfuscated somehow.
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