Earth Had Warmest February on Record as This Year

Sunday, March 10, 2024

Earth just had its warmest February on record, and its warmest 12 month period, according to new data released Thursday.

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... Why it matters: The new statistics confirm that so far, 2024 is beating 2023's record warmth and that of prior years like 2016.

Zoom in: According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, an EU organization, February was the ninth month in a row to rank as the globe's warmest on record. ...

The usual good graphic in the article.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-03-09 01:44 PM | Reply

... Australia's Great Barrier Reef is being devastated by another "widespread, often called mass, coral bleaching event", officials said on Friday.

It is the seventh time since 1998 that such severe and widespread damage has been detected, caused by warm sea temperatures.

Extreme weather cause for concern

"We know the biggest threat to coral reefs worldwide is climate change. The Great Barrier Reef is no exception," Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek said. ...

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-03-09 02:35 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The Lovin' Spoonful - Summer in the City

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My daughter has moved from diving to save the coral to teaching at the University.

I'm glad... hot sharks are temperamental.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2024-03-09 04:33 PM | Reply

I haven't been on a dive for more than 10 years. I really miss it.

#4 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-03-10 02:24 PM | Reply

That crazy Stepford Wives birthing synth with the malfunctioning emotion chip, the one who delivered the Deplorable Response to Biden's speech?

She doesn't believe in Global Warming.

Suck it, liberals.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-10 02:27 PM | Reply

My daughter's fiance told me how they met; he raced her underwater swimming against the current at a popular site in S. Florida. He's a big strong guy, an experienced diver, and he couldn't keep up.

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2024-03-10 02:34 PM | Reply

Just 3 years ago we had the coldest Feb.

#7 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-03-10 04:04 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Just 3 years ago we had the coldest Feb.

Were saved!

Or wait, filthy is wrong again...

The February 2021 global surface temperature was 1.17F (0.65C) above the 20th-century average of 53.9F (12.1C). This was the smallest February temperature departure since 2014 and the 16th highest for February in the 142-year record.

www.ncei.noaa.gov

#8 | Posted by horstngraben at 2024-03-10 04:10 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#8??

The data has problems, instrument changes and observation practices. For instance time of observation changes. Stations moving, siting problems, and influences of urbanization around the station. NOAA then adjusts the past observations to be more in line with recent and current observations at each station.

I mean look I get it using the same apparatus for data collection. But all these data normalization routines are drought with interpretation and biases.

Then NOAA says we know with a hundredth of a degree?

You can fool the average fool with these numbers, but you can't fool the educated.

At least be honest in your critique.

#9 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-03-10 04:26 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#9 - Seriously?
That was pathetic.
Pretty funny you tried to say you were educated in that "rebuttal."
At least "filthy", as a "magat" understandably confuses the entire planet, Earth with the United States.

#10 | Posted by YAV at 2024-03-10 04:30 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Just 3 years ago we had the coldest Feb.
#7 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

LOL!!!
You are such a stupid.
You can't tell the difference between the USA and the world.

"February was the coldest it has been across the US in over 30 years"
www.cnn.com

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-10 04:35 PM | Reply

"I mean look I get it using the same apparatus for data collection. But all these data normalization routines are drought with interpretation and biases."

^
Obviously you are not a data scientist, or you would know there are countless ways that bias can be adjusted for.
You can fool yourself with your uninformed objections, but you can't fool the educated.

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-10 05:10 PM | Reply

... Flowering is triggered by environmental cues, like changes in temperature and increases in nutrients and water " this is why we think of spring blossoms bursting through melting snow, and why it's even called 'spring' in the first place.

In Doñana National Park at the southwestern extreme of Spain, those ideal flowering conditions are arriving a few weeks earlier these days. Thanks to an increase in average temperatures of just a single degree Celsius (or around 1.8 F) and minimums 2 C higher than usual, the park's flora is under the impression it's the first week of May when in reality it's still mid-April. ...

#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-03-10 05:44 PM | Reply

Year after year and yet the mouth breathers want to argue about if it is man or "nature". Hint: It is man releasing MILLIONS of barrels of oil into the atmosphere daily.

#14 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-03-10 09:21 PM | Reply

This year, 2024, Florida's banned wind turbines offshore and within one mile onshore of the coast and the Intracoastal Waterway. The same bill also eliminates references to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. This follows the (2015?) removal of terms like "climate change" from any government documents including any submitted to FL government bids, etc.

See? Easy fix. /s

#15 | Posted by YAV at 2024-03-10 10:36 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Year after year and yet the mouth breathers want to argue about if it is man or "nature". Hint: It is man releasing MILLIONS of barrels of oil into the atmosphere daily.

#14 | POSTED BY GALAXIEPETE AT 2024-03-10 09:21 PM | FLAG ERMMMM

Humanity is just another organism living on this host planet. Our species is behaving like a cancerous malignancy and destroying its host.

Ergo it is only nature. We are part of the natural world. We should stop acting like we are separate from the causality if we want our organisms to survive.

Our species is clouding the air and filling the skies with debris, only to be pulled back to earth like those caused by meteor collisions or mega volcanic eruptions of the past... just slower and from the ground up.

Maybe it's what we are supposed to do... nothing lasts forever. Dead Mars may have been alive once.

#16 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-03-11 09:55 AM | Reply

How mind numbingly dumb can climate deniers be? Ten years ago you could look at satellite images taken from the first satellites on and watch the visible regression of polar ice caps year over year. Mountains losing glacial caps they've had for millennia. It's only been a couple years since I've been scuba diving either - it's not just the Great Barrier Reef, although that will be the largest loss - reefs from Florida to Hawaii are bleaching out. And science denial? It's not like a tenuous theory. Nature provided us a damn science experiment cosmically right next door. You know, Venus, the planet with the CO2 atmosphere that's substantially hotter than the planet TWICE as close to the sun as it is.

Oh, but one winter was randomly cooler in a local geographic area? Remind yourself that when starving because farmland has to turned to desert. I'm sure it will take the edge off the hunger.

#17 | Posted by zeropointnrg at 2024-03-11 11:07 AM | Reply

"Humanity is just another organism living on this host planet. Our species is behaving like a cancerous malignancy and destroying its host." You need to chill and take a big breath of plastic-filled air and eat some plastic-filled fish.

#18 | Posted by Brennnn at 2024-03-11 05:53 PM | Reply