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.
So-called ‘elite’ grasping to control the people. Hang them, slow! Piano wire, meathooks and rolling cameras come to mind from a distant bit of history...
July was quite tolerable in Arizona.
In prehistoric times CO2 was times of what it is now and life flourished.
The problem is that a lot of the world didn’t have the temperature tracking that we had. There simply is not a record to compare. So we go with what we had back then.
And if someone is saying, today, that we had the “hottest day on record”, that is a fair thing to compare.
It’s really mild in Texas this year.
The grass is still green in August.
Of course it did. They created the conclusions before they even created the data.
Also the placement of their instruments to measure the temp. are in skewed places that result in a higher reading.
He actually talks about that very thing in some of his videos here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TonyHeller1/videos
COMPLETE BS.
We has one of the mildest July’s in Tejas that I have seen in 40 some years ...
I do not keep track of temperature data but I do keep track of Utilities costs for our location.
I have expenses from 1999 to present and our highest utility bill for July was 2003 with July of 2002 nipping at its heels.
July of 2019 came close but since 1999 the unit cost of electricity and gas has almost doubled locally. In 2004 we installed a more energy efficient unit at a cost of almost $40,000 which isn’t figured in so that skews the comparison a bit. Even so, July of 2007 was $100 more than July of 2019. Figuring an increase in cost per unit since that point, July of 2019 had less actual energy usage.
But that is a localized version so...
re: “It’s really mild in Texas this year.
The grass is still green in August.”
I have watered once so far, a couple days ago!
Had to dig out the hoses from where they were buried under the vine material that grows up close to the house foundation.
re: “Recorded history is about 150 years. The Earth is 4.5 billion years old.”
Plus, at that rate, we’re just recovering from an ice age where the midwest was under a mile (give or take) thick ice sheet ...
Let me see if I got this straight: There’s a World Meteorological Organization and Copernicus Climate Change Programme, that’s run by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, that is connected to the UN.
To solve the all-certain calamity ahead we need more NGO’s and other taxpayer funded bullshit to figure out HOW TO CONTROL THE SUN.
It’s for the chillrun’. Or Polar Bears. Or something...
Not in Oklahoma
Recorded history?
If the late 70s, when we got really good weather satellites, is “recorded history”...then I suppose.
In prehistoric times CO2 was times of what it is now and life flourished.
This is bunk.
It never got above 68 degrees in my house all summer.
Its been unseasonably cool in Atlanta for July.
same here in Missouri. Normal is mid 90s. This year had been mostly mid 80s
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