2011 Was Ninth Warmest Year On Record

i hope i get snow in spring. My Christmas without snow kinda makes me sad. damn you greenhouse gas! i recycle everything properly, I use paper bags and turn off/unplug unnecessarily electrical device.. come on, it takes all of us to contribute! it's not that hard.

I wonder how much increasing population (body heat) is affecting the rise in temperature..

And in other news, this year's Australian summer was BY FAR the best one I've ever had. I don't even sweat at night.

It's the cows, didn't you hear? An average cow farts around 5 times more than a human.


PS: Why is this up on Tom's HARDWARE? Doing weather reports now?

I have a feeling it is not going to be much, hen again, it could make a nice doctoral thesis :-)

@DSpider

Why is this on Tom's? Because Tom's is about twenty-first century technology: development, production, maintenance, consumption/use. And guess what? Many of those same industrial processes that are responsible for the existence and ubiquity of many of the gadgets in the world today on which we have come to depend are also responsible for the increased carbon emissions at the heart of the whole climate change issue. I'd say that this article is topical.

Honestly when I first saw the title here I thought ninth "warmest" year meant a lot of people overclocked their PCs hence the rise in temperature

James Hansen has a long record of falsifying data to support 'global warming'.

I wouldn't put too much faith in anything this serial liar has to say about climate, weather or anything else.

"Released*"

Anyway.. We are causing this warmth.. We all know it.
But hey, Fermi needed to be sold you know?

Joking aside.. Because I suck at it.. -.-.. You know what would fix it?

Make EVERYBODY ride a push bike.
It'll solve a majority of weight issues around the world, clean the atmosphere faster etc..
Plus you won't see "tow bikes" or serious "bike crashes" and all the other crap..


Yeah.. this is going to get 20 thumbs down LOL I'm just pulling stuff out my fingers. (see what I did th--.. ehhh...)

We have the technology to freeze this world. Only fools hold us back.

as long as one person goes to office in a mini-van, or unless petrol gets cheaper and gives more mileage than diesel, and factory owners are people in general are more paranoid about the stuff that comes out of their chimney, there's going to be a prob.

Alternative energy must drive alternative transportation and industrial process.

Ninth Warmest Year On Record

Coming in at number 8 for warm records "Winelight" from 1980 by Grover Washington jr. with the hit single...Just the Two of Us

Tomsguide...nothing but smooth warm sounds from today and years gone bye

Winter's very warm where I am this year, I've been able to wear a shirt and shorts almost every day (it's not exactly warm but it's fine).

I'm happy to see nobody replying here has confused weather with climate, nor local / state / country with "global". When we talk about global climate change, we're talking about stuff on the order of 1-5 degrees F. We had the hottest summer ever recorded in Oklahoma this past year, but that was a state/regional WEATHER event, just like the big northwestern US snow-storm last week was a regional WEATHER event, just like the super-snowy winter last year in the northern US was a regional WEATHER event. I doubt many of us can "feel" the observed global warming since I doubt many in here can tell when the average yearly temp has risen 1-2 degrees F. The world (glaciers, ocean current, trees, etc.) certainly does, though! (I'm a meteorologist finishing my PhD, so I have some experience with this topic )

As temperatures in the past continue to go down, the present will continue to be the 'warmest'. Look at the changes to the temperature record, the 1930s continue to cool, getting a little cooler each year. Soon enough, years like 1998 were warmer than the 1930s.

So after one of the coldest winters I have lived through, and a particularly mild summer, we ended up averaging above for the year because of an extended heatwave in August followed by a mild fall/winter?

Seriously, this is all nuts. It is not global warming, it is climate change. The climate changes over time. It did it for (if you subscribe to evolutionary theory) millions of years before we got here, and now it is somehow 'evil' because we are involved in the process? When are we going to realize that (contrary to popular opinion) we are a natural process? If we cause global warming, then we cause it. If we reverse it, then we reverse it. Back in the '80s it was all about the coming ice age (I love how 'the Day After Tomorrow' worked that in lol). Today it is all about global warming. In reality, both are about getting grant and research money, and not about hard science.
Do we need to consume less? Absolutely! But is has more to do with socio-economic reasons than any hard science. The people who set the price on power are unstable despots. The sooner we can get away from insane people controlling the market the better. On the flip side, the less we consume on things that maintain/operate equipment (like power), the more we can spend on making the newer/better equipment mainstream.
Was there a time when pollution was a major problem? Absolutely! Remember what SoCal looked like in the '70s and '80s (and even '90s)? It was like pea soup over a city (kinda like what many Chinese cities looked like when I was there ~10 years ago, but I hear those are getting better now). Have you been to SoCal recently? There are more people, but the air and the water are so much cleaner now! Sure, it is not perfect, but a lot has changed in the last 10-15 years, and I am sure that it will continue that trend.
How do we solve the problem of population growth and usage? You either start doing the inhumane thing of population caps, or decreasing the populace in one way or another, or you invest in the space program and pursue the dream of space exploration. Everything is finite, but the universe is big. If we do not learn to expand then we will doom ourselves eventually (be it hundreds or thousands of years in the future).

Ugg, here we go again.....

You know what, this crap is all bs...

George Carlin said it best....

Do a youtube search for "George Carlin environment", it's funny as hell and a real thought provoker....

Don't listen to anything NASA says about weather or climate, we already discovered the thousands of emails admitting to altering weather data to make global warming look real. It's all part of an agenda to make Al Gore more money with carbon credits.

Stories promoting global warming remind me of the children's story Chicken Little...but instead of "The sky is falling!", we have politically corrupted scientists in collusion with the Eco-terrorists running around screaming, "The earth is warming, the earth is warming!". The thing that Chicken Little and the the AGW crowd have in common is getting whacked on the head!

Whether AWG is real or not the IIPC, NASA, and the eco-terrorists have made such a farce out of the situation that no one except those that drink the AWG kool-aid believe them.

THE EARTH IS WARMING! THE EARTH IS WARMING! WE MUST SAVE MOTHER EARTH, OUR GREAT GODDESS GIAI, AND INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL POPULATION CONTROL, NO LONGER USE ANY NATURAL RESOURCES, AND LIVE LIKE WE ARE BACK IN THE STONE AGE! SAVE MOTHER EARTH! SAVE THE GODDESS GIAI!

Bunch of AWG bull$h*t!!!!!!!!!!!

And he is at it again, the rise in CO2 did not raise the earths temp (it dropped again), kind of an inconvenient truth for the Global Warming, err now climate change gurus. So now his new chart has some data modified:

From Icecap:

Hansen’s original data accurately showed the rapid warming during the 1920s, the 1940s temperature spike, and the rapid cooling during the 1970s.

By contrast, Hansen’s new corrected data makes no sense. He now shows early 1970s temperatures warmer than 1930s temperatures.

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It appears the global warming goofs are at it again with falsified data, with NASA and the UN in their pockets and trillions of dollars in carbon credits on the line. In case anyone is interested, it doesn't matter how hot or cold it is locally, its the global themature that matters. Unfiltered satellite data is the most reliable way to measure this as most temperature and rain measurement data collection stations are now smack dab in the urban areas where man made sources corrupt the data and Hansen has decided to edit out the cooler ones. Yes, he has been caught doing this.

This still doesn't mean it's caused by men. Besides, would you really want to go back to 1880, the tail end of the "Little Ice Age"? We still aren't as warm as the dark ages (700-1500AD) when there were vineyards and wineries in Scotland.

I'm looking forward to 1500 years of warmth, followed by the next ice age.

We are coming out of an iceage still, of course things are going to warm up.

I like how they often take weather data from cities. Cities create micro climates that tend to have much higher temperatures and winds than the surrounding areas only miles away. To get a true picture of how temperatures are going use stations in areas unaffected by daily human use.

Well, the Earth is getting warmer along with climate change cycles. It is not possible to reduce big forest all over the world and expect just a natural earth climate cycle. Falsified data and all.

As for the planet, in a longer term it may recover (in planetary and cosmic terms). Is us who need to worry, but why worry now. Pass all the trouble to your grandsons and granddaughters... Live happily and without consequences!, NOT.

wow putting sensors in hot areas will get you hotter temps

Man, there are still that many people that deny the huge impact humans have on climate change and that it is a real threat to our security? Since I'm gathering most of these deniers come from the States it should also be mentioned that over 50% of the US population still denies the Darwinian theory of evolution and over 30% believe in the hop-on-pop theory from Genesis in the Bible.

Your opinion of Hansen is wrong, but you're entitled to it just the same. I've read the reports of his "falsifying" data, however, when credible climate scientists reviewed the data it simply corroborated his findings.
http://berkeleyearth.org/pdf/berke [...] rocess.pdf

I love it when republicans attack someone who doesn't believe their views, and tries their hardest to discredit them. However, it always back fires because in the end, the evidence in the data does not lie.

This is purely frightening. A 0.51 C change in such a short of amount of time with a clear pattern of constant growth is much bigger impact than most people realize. Just 2 C will have major impact on the world enough to cause serious harm. 6 C increase is pretty much apocalyptic levels. Though it would take sheer stupidity to reach that after already suffering the major effects before it. Though one should never doubt the power of human stupidity or greed....

This is true, asphalt and buildings artificially increase temperature in cities, but why ignore it? That makes no logical sense. An increase in temperature is an increase in temperature. It may not be directly related to an increase in CO2 levels, but it does increase temperature. Cities also account for such a small amount of urban heating it's inconsequential.
National Climatic Data Center: 2003 article
Indiana State University study 2003

I'm all for dissolving cities and going back to smaller towns, but that'll never happen.

msgun98,
You just don't get it, do you. GHCN and consequently NASA fudge the numbers. Witness the dramatic change in the US temperature record post 2000 vs. pre 2000. Also note the egregious revisions to the Reykjavik and Godthab Nuuk Greenland temperature records recently. These unjustified changes serve to cool the past and warm the present. And with few northern station records, NASA global temperture reconstructions will smear these higher temperatures over vast polar areas. Ever wonder why the cute global temperature maps always show a huge blob of elevated temperatures in the Arctic? This is the kind of manipulative crap that makes me a denier and proud of it. also note the recent study from Harvard showing that climate skeptics test superior in mathematics and scientific reasoning.