Last Friday, NOAA and NASA officially declared 2014 as the hottest year in 134 years of record keeping, with an expected annual global temperature 0.68C above the 20th century average according to NOAA’s ‘dataset’.
In 2014, seven out of 12 months tied or topped previous monthly global temperature records. Oceans in particular experienced record warmth, with seven consecutive months- May through November - setting new records for surface ocean heat. Most importantly, 2014 sets the new global temperature record in the absence of an El Nino, a phenomenon which raises global temperature. Many of the previous hottest years on record have occurred during El Nno years, including 2010 and 2005, which now share the record for second hottest year.
As for the U.S., 2014 saw five new monthly heat records and was the 18th year in a row where the nationwide annual temperature average was hotter than usual.
ICECAP Note: Does this look like a warm year for the contiguous US?. After the coldest December to March since 1872 in places like Chicago and cool spring, July and 16th coldest November? This is the data that goes into the models and reanalysis - it is without the homogenization and other adjustments that NOAA and NASA use to support the politicos. Remember in this projection the higher latitudes are stretched. 90N and 90S are just a points of land but are stretched to appear as long as the equator.
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And Alaska, Arizona, California, and Nevada each had their warmest year on record. Notably, California’s annual average temperature was an amazing 2.3C (4.1F) above the 20th century average, shattering the old record of 1.3C (2.3F) by 1C.
The record heat in 2014 is just the latest development as global warming turns up the heat at an alarming rate. February 1985 was the last month where global temperature fell below the 20th century monthly average, making December 2014 the 358th consecutive month where the combined global land and ocean surface temperature was above average. Each of the last three decades has been much warmer than the decade before.
On Friday, climate experts from NOAA and NASA will announce the new data on 2014 global temperatures during a media teleconference at 11 am EST. Media can participate by calling 800.593.7128 and the password “globe.” Or listen to the livestream.
For a more comprehensive run-down of the science, please check out our new backgrounder online here
For additional insights, the following experts are available for comment:
Michael Oppenheimer - Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University.
Email: omichael@princeton.edu
Phone: 609-258-2338
Radley Horton - Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University[s Center for Climate Systems Research
Email: rh142@columbia.edu
Phone: 646-320-9938
Michael E. Mann - Distinguished Professor of Meteorology at Penn State University
Email: mann@psu.edu
Phone (cell): 814-777-3136
Climate Nexus is a strategic communications group dedicating to highlighting the wide-ranging impacts of climate change and clean energy solutions in the U.S.
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In actual fact, it was the 9th warmest since 1979 in the far more accurate and non contaminated and non manipulated satellite data sets (RSS and UAH merged).
The pause in temperatures the last 18 years has occurred even as CO2 has continued to rise over 11%.
Winters have cooled for 25 years here in the United States, accelerating in the last decade and this year will continue or even increase the downtrend. The only reason that they can make the claim that every month since 1985 is warmer than average is that they cooled off the early 50 years of the century by 0.3F or more degrees with their ‘corrections’. See the difference between the National Academy of Sciences temperatures from 1975 versus the 2014 NASA GISS plot courtesy of Steve Goddard.
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