This cracks me up, you guys have posted 20 pages in 2 days.
I think Catweasels post sums it up pretty nicely.
The evidence just keeps piling up.
California Now Suffering Worst Drought Ever, 2014 Hottest Year On Record
While most headlines are focused on the devastating drought in California, which by some measures is the worst on record, there is another 'factor' that has exploded to record highs - the heat. As Bloomberg reports, the California heat this year is like nothing ever seen, with records that go back to 1895 and with 70 percent of the state’s pastures rated “very poor to poor,” according to the USDA, things do not appear to be about to get better any time soon.
As Bloomberg reports, The California heat this year is like nothing ever seen, with records that go back to 1895. The chart below shows average year-to-date temperatures in the state from January through July for each year. The eastern half of the U.S. has had an unusually cool 2014, but it's a lone exception compared to the rest of the planet.
The high temperatures have contributed to one of the worst droughts in California's history. The water reserves in the state’s topsoil and subsoil are nearly depleted, and 70 percent of the state’s pastures are rated “very poor to poor,” according to the USDA. By one measure, which takes into account both rainfall and heat, this is the worst drought ever.
Most of the USA is having a rather cool year i think?
Meanwhile Antarctica looks very likely to post yet another 'satellite era' sea ice extent record and right now the Arctic has the same amount of ice as it had before the 'satellite era' ice records began and no doubt if these trends persist for a few more years we will be bombarded with nonsense to tell us sea ice freezes more when it is warmer
And here is one for you Kulganis, Peter, Goldbug, Massive. Ignoring the 1790-1830 Dalton minimum (solar minimum), when global temperatures dropped 0.7-0.8deg C, all the man-made C02 global warming graphs conveniently show the temperature rise from the early 1820/1830's onward, and temperatures have risen 0.8deg C since the end of the Dalton minimum.
New paper finds .8C global cooling during Dalton Minimum The paper shows a ~16 x 10^22 Joule decrease in global ocean heat content from 0 to 100 meters during the Dalton Minimum, which by way of comparison is 3 times larger than the 5 x 10^22 Joule increase in global ocean heat content 0-100 meters over the past 55 years [Levitus et al 2012, figure 2]. The paper also shows a global surface temperature decrease of ~0.8C during the Dalton Minimum, by way of comparison about the same as the 0.7 – 0.8C global warming since the Little Ice Age ended in ~1850.
Kulganis, "realist" view of global warming is above. And extrapolate out to 12000 yrs, the "realist" view of normal natural temperature changes.
And the man-made global warming alarmists view of global sea-level rise (20cm rise in 120yrs - 6cm since AGW started 2-3mm/yr) 20-30cm/century - and after the 1790-1830 Dalton solar minimum - global cooling!!!, vs the "realist" natural climate change view. (126m in the 10000yrs from 17000-7000 yrs ago) or (50m in a 4000yrs period to 8000yrs ago - 125cm/century). man-made global warming alarmists view
By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, BBC News
The hiatus in the rise in global temperatures could last for another 10 years, according to new research.
Scientists have struggled to explain the so-called pause that began in 1999, despite ever increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.
The latest theory says that a naturally occurring 30-year cycle in the Atlantic Ocean is behind the slowdown.
The researchers says this slow-moving current could continue to divert heat into the deep seas for another decade.
However, they caution that global temperatures are likely to increase rapidly when the cycle flips to a warmer phase.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), global average temperatures have increased by around 0.05C per decade in the period between 1998 and 2012.
This compares with a decadal average of 0.12 between 1951 and 2012.
More than a dozen theories have been put forward on the cause of this pause in temperature growth that occurred while emissions of carbon dioxide were at record highs.
These ideas include the impact of pollution such as soot particles that have reflected back some of the Sun's heat into space.
Increased volcanic activity since 2000 has also been blamed, as have variations in solar activity.
The most recent perspectives have looked to the oceans as the locations of the missing heat.
All the evidence is there GBD but it's too big for most people to get their minds around. Like the massive 2 trillion dollars the australian public owes, no one likes to think about that because it is just big to contend with yet the GFC proved that a lot of debt can be fatal in a downturn.
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