Sunday was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth, scientists say
WaPo claims we are in “dangerous new territory.”
“The results from the Copernicus Climate Change Service show the planet’s average temperature on July 21 was 17.09 degrees Celsius (62.76 degrees Fahrenheit) — breaking a record set only last year. The historic day comes on the heels of 13 straight months of unprecedented temperatures and the hottest year scientists have ever seen.” …
“It is troubling but not surprising that we are hitting record temperatures this year,” Andrew Pershing, vice president for science at the nonprofit Climate Central, wrote in an email. “We continue to add carbon pollution to the atmosphere, so global temperatures will continue to go up.” …
“We are in truly uncharted territory,” Copernicus director Carlo Buontempo said in a statement. “And as the climate keeps warming, we are bound to see records being broken in future months and years.”
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Six degrees of ‘hottest day ever’ hoax from WaPo @sarahkaplan48:
1. The claim that Sunday’s “global temperature” hit 62.76°F is based on modeling, not measurements.
2. Sunday’s real-time temperature measurements average out to only 56.96°F — almost 6°F cooler.… pic.twitter.com/VbcLOrS5tg
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) July 24, 2024
Climate Depot Reality Check:
The same claims of “hottest day” were made in 2023, also based on the output of a climate model and not actually measured temperatures.
Hottest 12 Months for 125,000 Years Claim Lacks Any Scientific Evidence
Chris Morrison of Daily Skeptic: Last year humanity lived through the hottest 12 months in at least 125,000 years, reported an hysterical CNN, a frame of mind replicated throughout much of the mainstream media. …
Accurate temperature records barely started before the 20th century, and recent measurements by fixed thermometers have been heavily corrupted by growing urban heat. It is in fact possible using proxy measurements to get a good idea of general temperature movements over the last 125,000 years.
All the evidence points to periods of much higher temperatures, notably between 10,000 to 5,000 years ago.
The latest science paper examining this trend has just been published, and it points to summer temperatures at least 1.5°C higher around 5,000 years ago in the eastern Mediterranean, at a time when civilization was developing rapidly.
Via The Australian: Cliff Mass, professor of Atmospheric Sciences at University of Washington, said the public was being ‚”” misinformed on a massive scale “” It’s terrible. I think it’s a disaster. There’s a stunning amount of exaggeration and hype of extreme weather and heatwaves, and it’s very counter-productive,”” he told The Australian in an interview‚”” I’m not a contrarian. I’m pretty mainstream in a very large [academic] department, and I think most of these claims are unfounded and problematic.””
Professor Mass said the climate was ”radically warmer” around 1000 years ago during what’s known as the Medieval Warm Period when agriculture thrived in parts of now ice-covered Greenland. ‚””If you really go back far enough there were swamps near the North Pole, and the other thing to keep in mind is that we’re coming out of a cold period, a Little Ice Age from roughly 1600 to 1850.”
John Christy, a professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, said heatwaves in the first half of the 20th century were at least as intense as those of more recent decades based on consistent, long-term weather stations going back over a century‚ “”I haven’t seen anything yet this summer that’s an all-time record for these long-term stations, 1936 still holds by far the record for the most number of stations with the hottest-ever temperatures,”” he told The Australian, referring to the year of a great heatwave in North America that killed thousands.
Professor Christy said an explosion of the number of weather stations in the US and around the world had made historical comparisons difficult because some stations only went back a few years; meanwhile, creeping urbanization had subjected existing weather stations to additional heat. “”In Houston, for example, in the centre it is now between 6 and 9 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the surrounding countryside,”” he explained in an interview with The Australian.
Professor Christy, conceding a slight warming trend over the last 45 years, said July could be the warmest month on record based on global temperatures measured by satellites‚””just edging out 1998‚”” but such measures only went back to 1979.
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https://climate.copernicus.eu/new-record-daily-global-average-temperature-reached-july-2024
The Copernicus Climate Change Service admits it ‘fills the gaps’ with climate models and other statistical methods, not actual temperature data.
They claim it is “based on preliminary data” and was “the hottest day since at least 1940, by a small margin of 0.01ºC” which they note is “almost indistinguishable from the previous record,
reanalysis dataset.”
But the media ran with it to blow out of proportion.
They admit it’s a “combination of observations and state- of-the art weather and Earth system models”
They tout literally invention temperatures where none exists! “We can reconstruct the past weather even for when and where we had no observations. The principle of ECMWF’s reanalyses is to provide “maps without gaps” using “data produced by model simulations in order to “fill the gaps” in observations.”
What is ERA5 reanalysis: “The latest European State of the Climate, using ERA5 data, C3S stated that 2022 was the second warmest year for Europe since 1950.”
The Copernicus Climate Change Service is also beholden to Net Zero politics due to “funding” from the the European Commission.