The Earth Baked in Record Fashion This Summer

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-19/the-earth-baked-in-record-fashion-this-summer.html


Much of the talk in the eastern U.S. has been about how cool it’s been day after day this summer. It turns out that’s a topic that wouldn’t have come up in many other places in the world.

According to the National Climatic Data Center, the Earth had its warmest June through August on record.

The combined land and ocean temperature for the globe was 1.28 degrees Fahrenheit (0.71 Celsius) above the 20th century average of 61.5 degrees and broke a previous record set in 1998, according to the center in Asheville, North Carolina.

Even parts of the U.S. cooked this summer. While the 48 contiguous states had a near-average summer and the coolest since 2009, California, Oregon and Washington all had seasons that registered in their top five for heat and most of the other states west of the Rocky Mountains turned in warmer summers than average. The mean temperature across the contiguous U.S. was 71.7 degrees, 0.3 degree above the 20th century mean, according to the climatic data center.

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1. K&R

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2. See also DU:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/112775043

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3. That's a great map... It was cool here this summer so all my RW 'friends' are in denial

But one of the reasons our summer was relatively cool was that we had far more rain than normal, which of course is likely because of global climate change. My RW acquaintances certainly don't see it that way though, because faux news tells not to.

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4. Mmmm: Think globally; Act locally.

Notice the variation at the few points monitored on the edge of Antarctica