[Vision2020] NOAA: NCDC: June 2010, Jan. Through June 2010, Global Temperatures are Warmest on Record

[Ted Moffett]

It is rather amazing that the last month with a global temperature below the
20th century average was February 1985, according to the National Climate
Data Center.  Does 25 years of consecutive months above the 20th century
average indicate a climate trend?

Given the reasoning of many of the so called "skeptics" (many are not really
skeptics, of course, but confirmation bias driven denialists, while all
competent scientists are skeptics by training, including the climate
scientists who state that the scientific evidence, after rigorous skeptical
analysis, is compelling that human impacts are altering climate to a degree
requiring action) of anthropogenic climate warming, a valid climate trend
can be derived only from 12-13 years of data, given the common argument that
because no year since 1998 has exceeded that year for global temperature,
global warming has stopped or is decreasing (an argument apparently not
considering the fact that when analyzed decade by decade, the past decade is
the warmest on record).

However, the first 6 months of 2010 has exceeded 1998 for global
temperature:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100715_globalstats.html

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/?report=global&year=2010&month=6&submitted=Get+Report

Global Highlights

   - The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for June
   2010 was the warmest on record at 16.2°C (61.1°F), which is 0.68°C (1.22°F)
   above the 20th century average of 15.5°C (59.9°F).
   - June 2010 was the fourth consecutive warmest month on record (March,
   April, and May 2010 were also the warmest on record). This was the
304thconsecutive month with a global temperature above the 20
   th century average. The last month with below-average temperature was
   February 1985.
   - It was the warmest January–June on record for the global land and ocean
   temperature.

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