July 2015 was the hottest month on modern record

If the PDO has switched to a positive phase, as seems to be indicated, then the we should expect higher average global air temperatures for a few years as the ocean sheds some of its heat. Plus, a moderate to strong El Nino this year will probably make 2015 the warmest on the instrumental record.

Well if we're doing prophesy, here's mine.

It's pretty much always going to be the hottest month or year until 2017 when NOAA's phony professor, Tom Karl, joins the unemployment line.

(Karl was referred to as professor for a while based on an honorary degree he received. Dolly Parton has one too)

In the meantime here's what the more reliable satellite temps are saying according to actual, for real PHD Dr. Roy Spencer.





http://www.drroyspencer.com/2015/08/uah ... 15-0-18-c/

Dr. Dolly's measurements have yet to come in, but it's believed those for the top hemisphere concur with Dr. Karl's as being abnormally high.

Bullshit.

Oh goody, another AGW BS chicken little sky is fall sky is heating the same guys shouting the same crap over and over so I say screw it and go ride my Harley thread for me to ignore.

Interesting. In California the drought and warm weather (and absence of cloud cover) has led to record harvests in all sectors of agriculture - even in the nut sector which reduced the number of trees due to the drought.

Oh, and just a reminder that weather and climate are two different things.

I say that because I predict that we'll see instances of record cold this winter and the warmists will say that 'weather and climate are not the same!'

In Sacramento we're having a cooler-than-usual summer even though we've had consistently warm temps.

Interestingly, almost all of our "records" for heat are 2006 and older.

You can't argue about facts.

And that's why everyone discounts Dr. Spencer; thermometer measurements from the air can never be replicated by satellites. They have to be 'estimated'. Something you oppose, if I recall.

People will anyhow. Perhaps one day they will see the trend.

It was much hotter the year before they started keeping records

The asteroid strike would be worth just because it would put an end once and for all to this interminably dopey conversation.

It's never stopped you before.

Sorry, what? A Dodge?

I don't know if the UAH temps are more reliable. regardless all temperature records--surface and satellite--show a warming trend, although the UAH dataset is the lowest at around 0.11 deg C decade (whihc incidentally dropped overnight from 0.14 deg C/decade when they released version 6 of their algorithm--better get McKitrick on the case!)

The fact that he refers to an anomaly of +0.18 deg as "strong cooling" makes you wonder too. RSS (again, based ont he same data used by Spender et al.) calaculated an anomaly of 0.75 deg (and the warmest July on record). That's a huge difference.

I don't know who Dr. Dolly is. I suppose this is your usual tack of attacking the person, not the science. In any case, all temperature record sets show warming, so it's kind of pointless going after NOAA.

Excellent rebuttal. If all else fails, I'm sure a pigheaded refusal to face facts will see us through.