As unusual as the current cold is for the U.S., the global picture shows that January is not on course to break that 28 -
year warm streak, either.
Not exact matches
The company's dividend growth
streak of eight consecutive
years appears to be just
warming up, with a payout ratio of 29.5 % all but guaranteeing strong future dividend increases (which should drive some of that near - term and long - term total return).
August's warmth spread into September, contributing to the
warmest year to date for the globe, but not enough to continue the recent 16 - month
streak of record warmth.
«Monthly record -
warm streak ends, September second
warmest on record for globe: The
year to date continues to be record
warm.»
The past 11 months have been the hottest such months in 135
years of recordkeeping, a
streak that has itself set a record and puts in clear terms just how much the planet has
warmed due to the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
It was also the most anomalously
warm month Earth has seen in 135
years of NASA record keeping, continuing an astonishing recent
streak that could see 2016 set a new record for hottest
year.
The company's dividend growth
streak of eight consecutive
years appears to be just
warming up, with a payout ratio of 29.5 % all but guaranteeing strong future dividend increases (which should drive some of that near - term and long - term total return).
On the issue of probabilities of a
streak of
warm months /
years this isn't the first time that the null of non-correlated data has been abused in such a manner.
After recording its
warmest year on record in 2015, Earth continued its record -
warm streak into 2016, with January 2016 being the planet's
warmest January since record keeping began in 1880, said NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) on Wednesday.
But they are more likely to be repeated as the
years continue to pass since we have been on a continuous
warming streak for over 30
years that shows no sign of slowing down nor does our knowledge of science give us any reason to believe that it will.
Given 2016's remarkable
warm streak — every single month so far this
year has been the
warmest such month on record — Schmidt said this
year is on pace to rank as the
warmest ever measured by a wide margin.