Scorching year continues with hottest summer on record
By Tom Randall Brian K Sullivan, Bloomberg
This is what global warming feels like.
Last month was the hottest August on record, topping out the hottest summer on record, according to data released on Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It was the sixth month this year to set a new record: February, March, May, June, July, and August. This has been the hottest start to a year on record and the hottest 12 months on record. It follows the hottest calendar year (2014), and the hottest decade.
In 136 years of global temperature data, we are in uncharted territory. And this year’s extremes are likely to continue as a strong El Niño weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean continues to rip more heat into the atmosphere. There’s now a 97 percent chance that 2015 will set yet another record, according to NOAA.
I did a hike this summer with a NASA Scientist who heads up an environmental satellite research team.
He said his team continues to report unimaginable acceleration of environmental events around the world by revisiting land regions from space.
Interesting enough He hasn’t concluded that we’re all doomed – but his team is convinced something very unusual is taking place that is accelerating at an alarming rate.
Toxic. We’re not “all” doomed, just some are doomed.
Rock…everybody dies, for most it comes as a blessing of sorts.
Humm. I believe the inference was to the survival of the species Homo Sapiens… “we’re all doomed.”
Of course there is death in every Biome on Earth and even the Earth will move to close to the Sun for any life to exist in about 1.75 billion years. But, I am not sure that was the point.
Climate Change will affect certain populations and species more then others in the near future; hence the call for action.