Whoa! Earth at 58.24F in 2014 was allegedly hotter than Earth at 62.45F in 1997
Whoa!
The global average temperature of 62.45 degrees Fahrenheit for 1997 was the warmest year on record, surpassing the previous record set in 1995 by 0.15 degrees Fahrenheit
The average temperature for the year [2014] was 0.69°C (1.24°F) above the 20th century average of 13.9°C (57.0°F) [ie 58.24F] , beating the previous record warmth of 2010 and 2005 by 0.04°C (0.07°F).
http://tomnelson.blogspot.ca/2015/02/noaa-settled-science-earth-at-5824f-in.html
Sea Ice Extent – Day 45
Sea Ice Extent – Day 44
So-called Scientists Don’t Know The Sun Sets Every Day
Too stupid to spend much time on it … but so stupid it should be noted.
“The scientists set up infrared heaters over the five meadow plots measuring 30 square metres (322 square feet).
Left to run day and night, the heaters burned through more than 128,462 kilowatt hours of electricity.”
Sea Ice Extent – Day 43
Sea Ice Extent – Day 42 – Fluctuations Getting Smaller – AMO Peaked?
Update: I have added a graph at the top.
The red line is the AMO for January’s only. The blue lines are Antarctic Sea Ice (top) and Arctic Sea Ice (bottom) for just day 42.
Note that Antarctica follows the AMO. And the Arctic does the opposite of the AMO. And also the Arctic is a mirror of the Antarctic.
Note also that the January AMO has flattened out around 2005 which is when the Arctic at this time of year bottomed out.
Both the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice fluctuated by large amounts every few years around this day.
Not so much the last few years.
The Arctic would go up and down by 700,000 or 800,000 …. and now it is only going up and down by 300,000 and the bottom stays the same at 14.2 million sq km.
The Antarctic would fluctuate by over 1,000,000 sq km . The last 4 years have seen very small changes from year to year.
It could be a portent of stability or just a pause before the process reverses itself.
The AMO is getting ready for the big plunge (see bottom graph’s) and is only staying high in just a few months – Aug/Sep/Oct.
It may take decades for the AMO to hit bottom.
And I suspect the Arctic will refreeze and the Antarctic will melt some. And climate “scientists” will claim they predicted it all along.
Sea Ice Extent – Day 42
Sea Ice Extent – Day 41
USA NOAA January 2015 Tmax – States
Oooops: I initially used C/Decade. It is F/Decade.And I have to check the Trend.
Update: The trend is correct once I corrected the units.
Update: Here is a link to NOAA for California. Ohio is doing the opposite since 1998.
January 2015 Tmax Ordered By State Rank
Only 6 States in the top 10. Only 9 in the top 20. 27 out of 48 have a rank of less than 61 (the middle of 121).
And note that 15 states January’s are cooling since 1895 .
And 38 states January’s are cooling since 1998.
| State | Rank (1 = Hottest) | Trend Since 1895 in F/Decade | Trend Since 1998 in F/Decade |
| Oregon | 1 | 0.45 | 1.86 |
| California | 3 | 0.36 | 2.66 |
| Nevada | 4 | 0.29 | 0.79 |
| Utah | 8 | 0.31 | -1.6 |
| Wyoming | 8 | 0.38 | -0.15 |
| Idaho | 9 | 0.26 | 0.33 |
| Washington | 11 | 0.38 | 0.28 |
| Arizona | 19 | 0.34 | -0.63 |
| Colorado | 19 | 0.23 | -0.96 |
| Montana | 22 | 0.44 | 0.83 |
| North Dakota | 23 | 0.45 | 0.85 |
| South Dakota | 25 | 0.3 | -0.61 |
| Minnesota | 27 | 0.24 | -1.38 |
| Kansas | 28 | 0.2 | 0.06 |
| Nebraska | 29 | 0.2 | -1.02 |
| Iowa | 31 | 0.01 | -1.3 |
| Missouri | 44 | -0.03 | -0.62 |
| Oklahoma | 49 | 0.11 | 0.05 |
| Florida | 51 | 0.05 | -0.54 |
| New Mexico | 56 | 0.23 | -1.67 |
| Wisconsin | 60 | 0.12 | -2.32 |
| Arkansas | 68 | -0.11 | -1.43 |
| Illinois | 68 | -0.06 | -1.8 |
| North Carolina | 68 | -0.06 | -1.75 |
| Georgia | 71 | -0.01 | -1.63 |
| South Carolina | 71 | -0.04 | -1.48 |
| Virginia | 71 | -0.02 | -2.29 |
| Alabama | 73 | -0.17 | -1.65 |
| Mississippi | 73 | -0.19 | -1.64 |
| Delaware | 75 | 0.07 | -2.16 |
| Indiana | 78 | -0.13 | -2.57 |
| Kentucky | 78 | -0.15 | -2.67 |
| Maine | 78 | 0.13 | 0.3 |
| Maryland | 79 | 0.06 | -2.46 |
| New Jersey | 79 | 0.17 | -2.12 |
| Tennessee | 79 | -0.18 | -2.24 |
| Louisiana | 80 | -0.12 | -2.02 |
| Michigan | 81 | 0.13 | -1.92 |
| West Virginia | 82 | -0.16 | -2.84 |
| New Hampshire | 85 | 0.08 | -0.63 |
| New York | 85 | 0.06 | -1.18 |
| Vermont | 86 | 0.04 | -0.66 |
| Connecticut | 87 | 0.1 | -1.24 |
| Ohio | 88 | -0.09 | -2.85 |
| Massachusetts | 89 | 0.11 | -1 |
| Pennsylvania | 89 | 0.04 | -2.6 |
| Texas | 90 | 0.05 | -2.3 |
| Rhode Island | 92 | 0.13 | -1.14 |
sunshine hours 