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The average combined global land and ocean surface temperature for December 2013 was the third highest for December since records began in 1880, at 0.64°C (1.15°F) above the 20th century average of 12.2°C (54.0°F).
The globally-averaged land surface temperature for December 2013 tied with 1998 as the fifth highest for December on record, at 1.16°C (2.09°F) above average. The globally-averaged ocean surface temperature tied with 2004 as the seventh highest for December on record, at 0.46°C (0.83°F) above average.
The average combined global land and ocean surface temperature for January–December 2013 tied with 2003 as the fourth warmest such period on record, at 0.62°C (1.12°F) above the 20th century average.
The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for January was the warmest since 2007 and the fourth warmest on record at 12.7°C (54.8°F), or 0.65°C (1.17°F) above the 20th century average of 12.0°C (53.6°F). The margin of error associated with this temperature is ± 0.08°C (± 0.14°F).
The global land temperature was the highest since 2007 and the fourth highest on record for January, at 1.17°C (2.11°F) above the 20th century average of 2.8°C (37.0°F). The margin of error is ± 0.18°C (± 0.32°F).
For the ocean, the January global sea surface temperature was 0.46°C (0.83°F) above the 20th century average of 15.8°C (60.5°F), the highest since 2010 and seventh highest on record for January. The margin of error is ± 0.04°C (± 0.07°F).
There is a reason we refer to it as "Global" Warming and not "US" Warming.
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January 2014:
You really couldn't be more silly.......do you know who setup NOAA? Some of us are paying attention. They make this site look like the official weather site, tricky and lying now aren't they?
The idea of creating a centralized climate data center dates back to 2006, during the Bush administration, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration formally proposed its creation in 2010. NOAA’s administrator at the time, Jane Lubchenco, called it a National Climate Service, since it is modeled loosely on the National Weather Service.
Congress, which was controlled by Democrats, called for an independent review of the proposal. But Republicans later rejected the plan after taking control of the House.
In an interview Wednesday, Lubchenco called the effort “very timely. As we saw at NOAA the requests for information are just escalating exponentially . . . It’s not just data, it is being able to visualize it, to manipulate it, and to tailor it to the decisions you are making.”
the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, an industry group that opposes federal limits on carbon dioxide, said the idea is part of an effort to justify stricter regulations based on the prospect of harmful climate impact. While the data initiative will come out of agencies’ existing budgets, the group said the administration is already spending too much on infrastructure in the name of climate readiness.
“Even as millions of Americans experience continued economic plight, the White House is expending enormous resources, including billions in taxpayer dollars, on the president’s pet project: ‘climate change preparedness,’ ” the group’s spokeswoman Laura Sheehan said in a statement. “The administration’s new climate change Web site will further bolster its fear-inducing vision of the future, which sounds more and more like a scene out of a Hollywood movie.”
Mary Glackin a longtime career official at NOAA who served as the agency’s acting administrator at the start of the Obama administration, said it was important to enlist the help of the private sector to modernize the way businesses and consumers access climate data. “Our climate services are back in the 1940s, and our problems are really the problems of today,” she said.
There is a reason we refer to it as "Global" Warming and not "US" Warming.
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Finally, someone else who gets it. I guess some people think that the U.S. is the only country in the world. If it doesn't happen here, it isn't happening.
Seriously? What planet are you on Gretel? Your backyard is not the world.
WMO: "A preliminary assessment of global temperatures during the first nine months of 2013
indicates that this year will likely be among the 10 warmest years since global records began in 1850."
I find it quite interesting that the United States having one of the coldest winters in recorded history is meaningless, yet the fact that Australia is "set for the hottest year on record" proves global warming.
True, OUR back yard is not the world, but then neither is Australia!
Many people do NOT "DENY climate change"! But, we DO wonder why nothing is being done to adapt to the inevitable problems that will occur due to a warming (or cooling) of the climate.
We may not be climate scientists, but we certainly are aware that the RULE is "Adapt or die!" What if climate change simply can not be stopped? Will we eventually realize that we must adapt to the new climate, only to find out it is already too late, we are dead but don't know it yet?
Are we REALLY that stupid?
At the present time, it would seem so...
I find it quite interesting that the United States having one of the coldest winters in recorded history is meaningless, yet the fact that Australia is "set for the hottest year on record" proves global warming.
True, OUR back yard is not the world, but then neither is Australia!
Many people do NOT "DENY climate change"! But, we DO wonder why nothing is being done to adapt to the inevitable problems that will occur due to a warming (or cooling) of the climate.
We may not be climate scientists, but we certainly are aware that the RULE is "Adapt or die!" What if climate change simply can not be stopped? Will we eventually realize that we must adapt to the new climate, only to find out it is already too late, we are dead but don't know it yet?
Are we REALLY that stupid?
At the present time, it would seem so...
You're not as far out there as most of them I suppose, who believe that Climate Change is a complete hoax. Whether it's being caused by man or a global pattern that the planet experiences every so often, we probably can't determine for sure. But taking measures to reduce our carbon footprint, which impact the world in more ways than just tearing up the O-zone layer, is a huge step forward for humanity, that much cannot be denied.
You really couldn't be more silly.......do you know who setup NOAA?
Richard Nixon.
NOAA was formed on October 3, 1970 from a conglomeration of several existing agencies that were among the oldest in the federal government. They were the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, formed in 1807; the Weather Bureau, formed in 1870—Geodetic Survey and Weather Service had been combined by a 1965 consolidation into the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA); and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, formed in 1871. NOAA was established within the Department of Commerce via the Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1970. With its ties to the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, NOAA celebrated 200 years of service in 2007
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Some of us are paying attention. They make this site look like the official weather site, tricky and lying now aren't they?
Considering that it actually is the official weather site, it's kind of difficult to tell exactly what you're paying attention to. The Cartoon Network maybe?
Despite the frigid temperatures that kept those in the eastern United States shivering all winter, the period from December 2013 to February 2014 was the 8th warmest on record globally, the U.S. National Climatic Data Center reported Wednesday. That warmth early in the year could set the stage for another record or near-record warm year, one NCDC scientist said.
And February, which was the 21st warmest globally since record keeping began in 1880, was the 348th consecutive month where temperatures were higher than the global average; the last month with below-average temperatures was exactly 29 years ago, in February 1985, when Ronald Reagan was just beginning his second term as president.
While some years have averaged warmer than others, global temperatures have been inexorably rising over the past few decades as manmade carbon dioxide emissions have accumulated in the atmosphere, trapping heat.
You forgot the rules
1) if we have a hot temp year or month it is due to global warming
2)if we have a cold year its due to global warming
3) If it snows its global warming
4) if it does not snow its global warming
5) drought is global warming
6) flood is global warming
7) dental problems global warming
8)no dental problems global warming
Unless of course it is Bushes, tea party or Koch brothers fault
You forgot the rules
1) if we have a hot temp year or month it is due to global warming
2)if we have a cold year its due to global warming
3) If it snows its global warming
4) if it does not snow its global warming
5) drought is global warming
6) flood is global warming
7) dental problems global warming
8)no dental problems global warming
Unless of course it is Bushes, tea party or Koch brothers fault
I think that tossing of the tea into Boston Harbor back in the day is what started it all. Tea and saltwater don't mix and that created the atlantic vortex and here we sit ready to die due to all the SUV's.
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