The phrase
"hottest year" refers to a year when the Earth's temperature is the highest in comparison to previous years.
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This year is already on pace to be hotter than the previous
hottest year ever recorded, which was 2015.
Depending who you listen to, there were new record
hottest years in 1998, 2005, 2010 and 2014.
This past year is expected to be the
second hottest year on record, following three years of record - breaking high temperatures.
When our children ask what 2016 was like, what will we tell them about the
likely hottest year that has ever been recorded.?
Many scientists say the temperature data reflect random climate fluctuations and an
unusually hot year, 1998, picked as a starting point for charting temperatures.
The bottom line is that, just as a few
hot years do not prove global warming is real, neither would a few cool years prove it is not.
When 2015's record heat is common,
extremely hot years will be beyond anything humans have encountered so far, the researchers predict.
This year fits into the long - term trend of global warming with more
hot years set to come over the next decade or two.
1998 is the only year from the previous century, i.e. the 20th century, still in the top ten
hottest years list.
Between 1950 and 2013, the percentage of
hot years doubled, while the percentage of cold years decreased by half.
If the trend is warmer then a
single hot year causes some problems, but nothing like the impact of a dramatically cold year in a cooling tend.
Even if global temperatures are rising fast, the noise in the signal all but guarantees some succeeding years to be substantially cooler than the previous
hottest year on record.
Prior to this report, 2015 was ranked as the
second hottest year and 2014 as the third hottest.
The month was the latest in a string of record - and near record - warm months that will see 2016 easily take the title
of hottest year in the books.
I will have some follow up articles as I compare the
previous hot year of 1998 to 2010.
For instance, in terms of temperature, one standard deviation is about halfway between what you would expect for an average year and a
really hot year.
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With epic «cold» weather events like this, it really is as if the more the global warmies yell «
Hottest Year Evah», the more Mother Nature flips them the bird!
Naomi Klein's most important book; Sea levels at 6000 year high; 2014 may be
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Quite more serious than Gavin's new pronouncement YE 2014
about hottest year ever missing the error estimates per my new book, which contains much more info insight, or not.
Sadly for southern Californians, Taha's city is not the real LA, where the smog is still legendary and summers
get hotter year by year.
Contrarians focused on the rate of warming since 1998, which was an exceptionally
hot year due to climate change and El Nino.
Monthly and 12 - month average global temperature development, showing (with only December data still missing) 2017 will likely rank as the
third hottest year on record, despite a developing La Niña.
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