Are You 28 Yet? No? Then You Have Never Seen a Cooler-Than-Average Month

[trailmonkee]

Are You 28 Yet? No? Then You Have Never Seen a Cooler-Than-Average Month

Emphasis added. If you were born in or after April 1985, if you are right now 27 years old or younger, you have never lived through a month that was colder than average. That’s beyond astonishing.



The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration summarizes October 2012:

"The average temperature across land and ocean surfaces during October was 14.63°C (58.23°F). This is 0.63°C (1.13°F) above the 20th century average and ties with 2008 as the fifth warmest October on record. The record warmest October occurred in 2003 and the record coldest October occurred in 1912. This is the 332nd consecutive month with an above-average temperature."

link to article at Tree Hugger

[NutmegYankee]

1. On a Worldwide basis, yes. On a local basis, most have experienced one in the last few years.

Sometimes the AO and NAO combine to put my part of the world in a deep freeze. Overall the planet is hotter, but it can be colder in places.

[BlueStreak]

3. This is what separates us from the cave man

We have the technology to measure, record, and communicate what is happening on a global basis. It is no longer necessary for us to think like cave men, although many still do.

[NutmegYankee]

4. Please elaborate.

Who are you implying thinks like a cave man?

[BlueStreak]

6. People who can only make judgments based on what they actually experience at their cave

[BlueStreak]

2. More importantly,

none of us may ever again see a month that is below the average temperature for that month. The latest data indicates it is increasingly likely that the planet will have warmed a full 9 degrees by the year 2100.

So far, sea levels have risen only a few inches, yet that was enough to contribute to the catastrophe from Hurricane Sandy. If the Greenland ice sheet collapses, that could raise the sea level by 20-25 feet.

It is already melting -- very slowly because it is almost 2 miles thick. While the sheet remains largely intact, it helps cool the planet by reflecting sunlight back into space. But we are on track to reach a tipping point where the melting will accelerate because as it melts it loses int reflective property.

[Egalitarian Thug]

5. K&R&Just Wow n/t