<div dir="ltr"><br><div><a href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2014/6">http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2014/6</a><br><br>"The combined average temperature across global land and ocean surfaces 
for June 2014 was record high for the month, at 0.72°C (1.30°F) above 
the 20^th century average. This surpasses the previous record,
 set in June 1998, by 0.03°C (0.05°F). Nine of the ten warmest Junes on 
record have occurred during the 21^st century, including each 
of the past five years. June 2014 also marks the second consecutive 
month with record high global temperatures. With the exception of 
February (21^st warmest), every month to date in 2014 has 
ranked among the four warmest for its respective month.  Additionally, 
June 2014 marked the 38^th consecutive June and 352^nd consecutive month with a global temperature above the 20^th
 century average. The last below-average global temperature for June was
 June 1976 and the last below-average global temperature for any month 
was February 1985."<br>----------------------------------<br></div><div>My comment:<br><br></div>These temperatures are occurring after years of low solar activity, ironic considering the often heard anthropogenic skeptic talking point that solar activity is a primary driver of recent global warming, not human greenhouse gas emissions!  The following websites from NASA, Space.com and SkepticalScience explore recent solar activity and global warming causation:<br>
<br><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/01apr_deepsolarminimum/">http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/01apr_deepsolarminimum/</a><br><h3 id="content_title">
    
        Deep Solar Minimum
    
</h3>-----------------------------------<br><a href="http://www.space.com/19131-sun-solar-space-weather-2013.html">http://www.space.com/19131-sun-solar-space-weather-2013.html</a><br><h1>Sun's 2013 Solar Storm Peak Expected to Hit Century Low</h1>
<p>------------------------------------</p><a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/solar-activity-sunspots-global-warming.htm">http://www.skepticalscience.com/solar-activity-sunspots-global-warming.htm</a><br><h1><span>Sun & C<span id="skstip1" class="">limate</span>: moving in opposite directions</span></h1>
<p>-------------------------------------</p><p>I continue:<br></p><p>Also, note that June 2014 was warmer than June 1998 (as indicated in quote at top of page), the very warm June 1998 being driven in part by a super El Niino, while during June 2014, we experienced ENSO neutral conditions, though a weak or moderate El Nino is expected to develop later in 2014:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.html">http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.html</a></p><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="535">
<tbody><tr><td align="center"><font face="verdana,arial,serif" size="5"><strong>EL NIÑO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO)</strong></font> 
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   <font face="verdana,arial,serif" size="5"><strong>DIAGNOSTIC DISCUSSION</strong></font>
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   <font face="verdana,arial,serif" size="3">issued by</font><br>
   <font face="verdana,arial,serif" size="3">CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER/NCEP/NWS<br>and the International Research Institute for Climate and Society</font> 
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   <font face="verdana,arial,serif" size="4">10 July 2014<br></font><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="535"><tbody><tr><td><p align="center"><font face="verdana,arial,serif" size="3"><strong>ENSO Alert System Status:</strong></font><strong> <a href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/enso-alert-readme.shtml"><font face="verdana,arial,serif">El Niño Watch</font></a></strong></p>

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   <p align="justify"><font face="verdana,arial"><u>Synopsis:</u> <strong>The chance of El Niño is about 70% during the Northern Hemisphere summer and is close to 80% during the fall and early winter.</strong></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="verdana,arial"><strong>----------------------</strong></font></p><p align="justify"><font face="verdana,arial"><strong>I add:<br></strong></font></p><p align="justify"><font face="verdana,arial"><strong>When also considering the climate cooling impacts of human sourced aerosols, much of this from burning coal, especially from massive increases in coal burning in China, anthropogenic global warming is not stalling or stopping, as we often hear from the so called skeptics, but continuing:</strong></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="verdana,arial"><strong>From the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences website:</strong></font></p><p align="justify"><font face="verdana,arial"><strong><a href="http://www.pnas.org/site/misc/selections_7_4_11.shtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pnas%2FvmhE+%28Recent+Press+Highlights%29#global">http://www.pnas.org/site/misc/selections_7_4_11.shtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pnas%2FvmhE+%28Recent+Press+Highlights%29#global</a><br>
</strong></font></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a id="saliva7" name="global"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><strong>Dimmer switch on global<br>warming explained</strong></span></a></span></p>
<p align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">The
 authors further noted that China doubled its coal consumption from the 
years 2003 to 2007,
                                             leading to a huge increase 
in sulfur emissions that may have had a cooling effect on the planet. 
The researchers suggest that
                                             this cooling effect may 
have counteracted ongoing warming due to increased carbon dioxide 
concentrations, permitting natural
                                             forces to predominate the 
planet’s temperature. The proposed explanation may portend a future 
period of rapid global warming
                                             as solar input rises and as
 China installs scrubbers that remove aerosols from coal-fired boilers, 
according to the authors.</span><br><font face="verdana,arial"><strong></strong></font></p><p align="justify"><font face="verdana,arial"><strong>-------------------------</strong></font></p><p align="justify"><font face="verdana,arial"><strong>Stopping burning coal, necessary to prevent catastrophic global warming, <br>
</strong></font></p><p align="justify"><font face="verdana,arial"><strong>unless employing massive CO2 sequestration, may in the short term cause <br></strong></font></p><p align="justify"><font face="verdana,arial"><strong>a spike in global temperatures, as the cooling from coal sourced aerosols</strong></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="verdana,arial"><strong>dissipates!</strong></font></p><p align="justify"><font face="verdana,arial"><strong>-----------------------------</strong></font></p><p align="justify"><font face="verdana,arial"><strong>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<br>
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