November, warmest month since modern temperature record keeping began in 1880

Friday, December 20th 2013 - 06:20 UTC

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Last month was the warmest November since modern temperature record keeping began in 1880, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced in its latest State of the Climate Report, which summarizes climate-related news from around the world. Read full article

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Fido Dido
oh boy, those carbon nazis are desperate...
Dec 20th, 2013 - 03:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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AzaUK
Thats Human caused climate change for you :) it didn't seem so long ago our local river used to freeze over enough to walk across also remembering the pictures of the Thames freezing over enough for ice skating ect in the 1800s
Dec 21st, 2013 - 04:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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DennisA
“For the oceans, November's sea surface temperature was 0.94 Fahrenheit degrees above the 20th century average, tying 2009 as the third-highest for November.”

For most of the 20th century, ocean temperature was recorded by throwing a metal bucket over the side of ocean going ships attached to a rope and pulling a quantity of sea water, of varying amounts. By the time the temperature was measured, it could have lost half a degree. Now those temperatures are being compared with totally different measurement by the Argo floating buoys.

“Snow cover across the Northern Hemisphere reached its largest extent for November since 2002, and was about 710,000 square miles larger than the 1981-2010 average of just over 6.8 million square miles.”

So it's warmer, but there is more snow? Duh!
Dec 22nd, 2013 - 11:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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AzaUK
i assume climate prediction is a highly complicated subject with a very large number of variables. There is perhaps logical arguments for it. but that's for more intelligent people then anyone here to decide and for us lesser intelligent people to believe of not believe
Dec 23rd, 2013 - 12:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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