NOAA: July 2021 was Earth’s hottest month on record

[gary]

Originally Posted by NOAA

July 2021 has earned the unenviable distinction as the world’s hottest month ever recorded, according to new global data released today by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information.

“In this case, first place is the worst place to be,” said NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad, Ph.D. “July is typically the world’s warmest month of the year, but July 2021 outdid itself as the hottest July and month ever recorded. This new record adds to the disturbing and disruptive path that climate change has set for the globe.”

July 2021 by the numbers

Around the globe: the combined land and ocean-surface temperature was 1.67 degrees F (0.93 of a degree C) above the 20th-century average of 60.4 degrees F (15.8 degrees C), making it the hottest July since records began 142 years ago. It was 0.02 of a degree F (0.01 of a degree C) higher than the previous record set in July 2016, which was then tied in 2019 and 2020.

The Northern Hemisphere: the land-surface only temperature was the highest ever recorded for July, at an unprecedented 2.77 degrees F (1.54 degrees C) above average, surpassing the previous record set in 2012.

Regional records: Asia had its hottest July on record, besting the previous record set in 2010; Europe had its second-hottest July on record—tying with July 2010 and trailing behind July 2018; and North America, South America, Africa and Oceania all had a top-10 warmest July.

Press release here :-
https://www.noaa.gov/news/its-offici...onth-on-record

[multiweb (Marc)]

It just shows that despite all the talks, the agreements, the new technologies and the green washing the net effect is zilch. Nada.

[andyc (Andy)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

It just shows that despite all the talks, the agreements, the new technologies and the green washing the net effect is zilch. Nada.

Not true. We have *already* averted the worst case scenarios, as the world embarks on the great energy transition. We're still on a bad pathway, well above 2C and with awful consequences in the pipeline thanks to decades of denial and delay. But pledges made now already get us closer to 2C, and further ramping up of ambition could stabilise climate between 1.5C and 2C above pre-industrial. Needless to say, Australia's utter lack of ambition is almost the worst in the OECD, and is consistent with a very bad pathway. Fortunately, many countries are doing better than we are.

On each pathway, we would still expect to see record heat and increasing extremes as we've seen, but our goal is to stabilise climate and extremes before these get a great deal worse (they can get a *lot* worse if we give up).

[drylander (Peter)]

When looked at via the geological time periods not so much. We think 100 ish years of temps tell us zilch and overlook such occurrences as the mini ice age and the mini hot period in the middle ages when England produced crops it no longer can due to the return to normal temps. Computer modelling on theoretical events are a flop as they can't even account for ice ages. The idea that CO2 is evil belies the fact that plant life need it and thus we get more greening through higher crop yields and plant life in general. Time to remove the hysteria and learn to live with what mother nature gives us.
Pete

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by andyc

Not true. We have *already* averted the worst case scenarios, as the world embarks on the great energy transition. We're still on a bad pathway, well above 2C and with awful consequences in the pipeline thanks to decades of denial and delay. But pledges made now already get us closer to 2C, and further ramping up of ambition could stabilise climate between 1.5C and 2C above pre-industrial. Needless to say, Australia's utter lack of ambition is almost the worst in the OECD, and is consistent with a very bad pathway. Fortunately, many countries are doing better than we are.

On each pathway, we would still expect to see record heat and increasing extremes as we've seen, but our goal is to stabilise climate and extremes before these get a great deal worse (they can get a *lot* worse if we give up).

We've seen these graphs for the past decade and pledges are a plenty but nothing concrete gets done. Predictions and models don't change the fact that the raw data is still on its exponential rise. The combined effect of all the measures put in place over the years didn't change a thing. The renewables' energy was used on top of everything else we use. It never replaced anything. It allowed us to use more and feel good about it. Now we've entered into a phase of feedback loops that cause added CO2 due to uncontrolable fires on a global scale. The climate momentum is such that if we stopped cold today it would still go over 2c. There area lot of things that we could have done and that we could still do but it goes against everyone's comfort and "the economy". Stop consuming. That's the simple answer. But who's going to do that?