[Vision2020] NCDC: Global Temperature August/Yearly 2010: Tied With 1998 As Warmest

[Ted Moffett]

When viewing the high resolution map (at first website below) of global
temperatures for August 2010, the US Northwest is shown to be mostly below
the 1971-2000 baseline temperature.  However, globally, August 2010,
according to the National Climate Data Center, is the third warmest in the
instrumental record, since 1880.  From N. Africa into the Middle East into
Russia, August temperatures reached the highest levels above the baseline
average.

Consider, that the total US surface area, land and water (lakes, rivers),
including Alaska, Hawaii, as a percentage of total global surface area, all
land and water (oceans, lakes, rivers), is a mere 1.9 percent.  The world's
oceans are about 70 percent of total global surface area, so they dominate
Earth's climate, though humans often tend to exaggerate the significance of
weather on land, for obvious reasons:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/images/map-blended-mntp-201008.gif
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Jan.-Aug. 2010 is tied with 1998 for the warmest Jan.-Aug. period since
1880, according to NCDC:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100915_globalstats.html
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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
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