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you do know that the northern hemisphere has always been the coldest area of the globe outside the Antarctic, right?Getting back to the topic of the thread, here's more evidence of the continuing and accelerating warming of the Earth as the still rising carbon dioxide levels trap more and more of the sun's energy, and global warming continues and accelerates, making the beginning of this year the hottest on record. And that's just the heat increasing in the atmosphere. The oceans are absorbing over 90% of the excess heat that is being retained while the atmosphere has only been taking in about 3%.
Earth Hits New Milestone: 2015 Marks Warmest January to March On Record
weather.com
By Jon Erdman
Published Apr 20 2015
The first three months of 2015 have been the warmest January-March on record for the globe, according to three separate analyses released this week.
NOAA's state of the climate report released Friday says January-March 2015 topped the previous record warm first quarter of any year set in 2002.
NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies also found January-March to be record warm for the globe, with a surface temperature anomaly of 7.9 degrees Celsius, relative to the 1951-1980 average, topping the previous record from 2002 of 7.7 degrees Celsius. Both NOAA and NASA's global temperature records date to 1880.
March 2015 was the warmest March globally, as well, according to NOAA. Eight of the past 12 months -- March, December, October, September, August, June, May and April -- have either tied or set new global warm records for their respective months.
NOAA said only two other months -- February 1998 and January 2007 -- had higher global temperature anomalies for their respective months than March 2015.
An analysis from the Japan Meteorological Agency found March 2015 to be the warmest in their dataset dating to 1891. Four of the five warmest Marches in JMA records have occurred this century, including 2010 (second warmest), 2002 (third warmest) and 2014 (fifth warmest).
The first three months of 2015 were much warmer than average over a vast extent of Europe and Asia, particularly from Scandinavia and eastern Europe across much of Russia, as well as a swath of western Canada and the western United States, including Alaska.
Seven western U.S. states set their record warmest January-March periods, according to NOAA.
One of the few consistently cold spots has been eastern Canada and the northeastern quarter of the United States. New York and Vermont shivered through their coldest January-March on record in 2015.
Edit: And, the area of cold in the Antarctic is growing. Ask the scientist who keep getting caught in ice trying to get to their huts. Curious, have you seen that yet? They are thinking of moving the huts because it is getting more cold? Do. you. know. this?