May 2014 was the third warmest in the UAH satellite data set and the sixth warmest in

[ScienceRocks]

May 2014 was the third warmest in the UAH satellite data set and the sixth warmest in the RSS data set.

Global average temperature anomalies for May 2014 have been calculated for the lower troposphere using satellite data by the University of Alabama in Huntsville and US firm Remote Sensing Systems.

UAH's Version 5.6 global satellite-measured average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for May 2014 is +0.33C, which is up on April. RSS's Version 3.3 Global Land And Sea average lower troposphere temperature anomaly for May 2014 is +0.29C, also up on March.

The UAH May 2014 anomaly of +0.33C is up on April 2013 figure of +0.19C and the March 2014 anomaly of +0.11C. The RSS May 2014 anomaly of +0.29C is up on April 2013 figure of + 0.25C and the March 2014 anomaly of +0.21C. Both groups use the same basic data but each uses a different analysis method and a different baseline for calculating its anomaly.

The individual UAH and RSS anomalies are not directly comparable but the trend in anomalies should be consistent since the underlying raw data is the same. However, the UAH anomaly has climbed more steeply than the RSS anomaly in May bringing it more into line with the rise seen in the terrestrial data sets maintained by NASA, NOAA and the Met Office in the first four months of the year.

UAH And RSS Report A Warm May On Satellite Data

The ENSO is now warmer than anytime in 2005. Believe me it hasn't warmed in 10 effin years!

 

[ScienceRocks]

Let's just say that this year is a sign that the world hasn't warmed since 2005. How the hell can anyone argue otherwise is a mystery.

 

[RollingThunder]

Let's just say that this year is a sign that the world hasn't warmed since 2005. How the hell can anyone argue otherwise is a mystery.

How you can believe that idiotic nonsense is the mystery.

Last November was the hottest November on record going back to 1880. This April was tied with April 2010 as the hottest April on record. 2010 is the hottest year on record. 2013 was the 37th consecutive year (since 1976) that the yearly global temperature was above average. April was the 350th consecutive month (29 years) the the global average temperatures for that month exceeded the global average temperature for the month of April averaged over the entire twentieth century. In 2005, Arctic ice dropped to a new record low of only 2.05 million square miles, but in 2012, the ice extent dropped to a new record low of only 1.32 million square miles. 2014 may see the ice reach a new record low in September. This May saw the ice recede to its third lowest May extent in the satellite record. If it doesn't break a record this year, it will next year, after the El Niño gets going.

These are all signs of unmistakable continuing global warming.

 

[waltky]

2017 Among Warmest Years On Record...

2017 Among Warmest Years On Record
January 18, 2018 - This past year, 2017, was among the warmest years on record, according to new data released by NASA and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration.

The planet's global surface temperature last year was the second highest since 1880, NASA says. NOAA calls it the third warmest year on record, because of slight variations in the ways that they analyze temperatures. Both put 2017 behind 2016's record temperatures. And "both analyses show that the five warmest years on record have all taken place since 2010," NASA said in a press release.

The trend is seen most dramatically in the Arctic, NASA says, as sea ice continues to melt. "Despite colder than average temperatures in any one part of the world, temperatures over the planet as a whole continue the rapid warming trend we've seen over the last 40 years," said Gavin Schmidt, the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Yellows, oranges and reds show regions where the average temperature from 2013 to 2017 was higher than a baseline average from 1951 to 1980, according to an analysis by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.​

In NASA's rankings, 2016 was the warmest ever. But it adds that 2016's temperatures were heightened by an El Niño event. "In an analysis where the effects of the recent El Niño and La Niña patterns were statistically removed from the record, 2017 would have been the warmest year on record," NASA says.

The warming trend was clear in both land and sea temperature measurements. According to NOAA, 2017 average land surface temperatures were 2.36 degrees Fahrenheit higher than the 20th century average, while sea temperatures were 1.21 degrees Fahrenheit higher than that benchmark.

2017 Among Warmest Years On Record