My Thoughts on Technology and Jamaica: JMA, @NASA and @NOAA say 2014 Hottest Year on Record - How Wageningen University revealed Humans causing Climate Change

Saturday, April 4, 2015

JMA, @NASA and @NOAA say 2014 Hottest Year on Record - How Wageningen University revealed Humans causing Climate Change

“The new global temperature record announced today completely exposes the myth that global warming has stopped There is mounting evidence all around the world that the Earth is warming and the climate is changing in response to rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere”

Director of policy and communications at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics, Bob Ward, commenting on the findings of NASA, NOAA and JMA as it relates to climate change

2014 was the hottest year on record according to the JMA (Japan Meteorological Agency) based on their recent findings released Monday January 5th 2015 as stated in the article “2014 Officially Hottest Year on Record”, published January 5, 2015 by Brian Kahn, Scientific American.

According to the JMA report in the article “November in Books; 2014 On Pace for Hottest Year” Published December 15th, 2014 by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, the average temperature was 1.1°F above the 20th century average, edging out 1998 and the year human Greenhouse gas emission really began having an effect on the climate by about 0.1°F.

NASA and NOAA Results confirm JMA – Jamaica and small island nation to feel effect of Global Warming

NASA and NOAA have since backed them up with similar figures as noted in the article “2014 warmest year on record, say US researchers”, published 16th January 2015 By Mark Kinver, BBC News. The graph below clearly illustrates this upward trend in temperatures over the decades.




These figures suggest that 2014 was one of fourteen (14) years of the highest global temperatures since the 21st Century as per their study published on Friday January 16th 2015 entitled “GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP)”. 





2015 has ALREADY been a year of record snow in the USA and around the world and an ongoing mega drought in California that looks set to spread to the rest of the US of A come the summer of 2015 as noted in the article “US 'at risk of mega-drought future'”, published 13 February 2015 By Jonathan Amos, BBC News.

But it’s not the Americans alone who may be feeling the effects of Climate Change or Global Warming, depending on if you see the glass as half empty of half full. 



Small Island countries like Jamaica may soon start experiencing more sever Hurricanes not to mention sections of our island slowly disappearing beneath the rising sea water as pointed out in the video above. It will definitely have a profound impact on Jamaica’s Biodiversity according to research done by Dr. Dale Webber of the University of the West Indies in his paper entitled “Climate Change Impacts on Jamaican Biodiversity”.

JMA, NASA and NOAA say 2014 hottest year on Record - How the WMO Calculates the Global Average Temperature

Good to note here before the climate change hounds attack these findings that the JMA is one of four (4) major climatology research groups dedicated to tracking the Earth's weather using both ground measurements and satellites to compute the planet’s average temperature. Those fantastic four (4) are:

1.      NASA in the USA
2.      NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) in the USA
3.      Hadley Center in the U.K
4.      JMA (Japan Meteorological Agency) in Japan

Their temperature tracking gear differs, but they agree on one thing; the sky isn't falling, but it's not your imagination that it's getting hotter. The long-term global average temperature from the NASA and NOAA is calculated data collected between 1951 and 1980 and then compared to the present day.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) collects data from all of them and then uses it to determine the Global Average Temperature. So it bears repeating that 2014 is among the hottest years on record over the past 135 years since records began.


Based on their collective research the hottest years are in the 21st Century as can be seen in  the interactive graphic in the article “2014 Was the Hottest Year on Record”, published January 16, 2015 By Tom Randall  and Blacki Migliozzi, Bloomberg.

So, to summarize with some quick facts:

1.      2014 is the hottest year on record
2.      1891 is the year Human activity i.e. Greenhouse gases began influencing Global Temperature
3.      1998 was the year that had the highest Global Average Temperature
4.      10 of the hottest years have come since 1998

Good to note that in  2014 they had no El Niño effect, even working to prevent Hurricane formation that years as described in my blog article entitled “2014 Atlantic Hurricane Season looking Fairly Quiet - How Hurricanes are formed as Hurricane making Landfall equals Disaster”.
However, it is connected to warmer temperatures and was what made 1998 such a hot year.

Humans are causing Climate Change – Wageningen University Researcher demonstrate Statistical causality

Recent research from the an international team led by Dr. Egbert van Nes of Wageningen University using a mathematical analysis method to detect causality in complex systems developed by George Sugihara has proven that Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emission by humans is causing climate change as stated in the article “Research Confirms That Carbon Dioxide Led To Higher Temperatures In The Past”, published 3/30/2015 by Alex Knapp, Forbes.

Armed with that information recent bit of information and the results from the research by the WMO, it's now a little harder for Climate Change Detractors and the General public to say that Humans aren't causing Climate Change or Global Warming, whichever is to your political liking.


So dear reader, do you STILL think Global warming has stopped? If this doesn’t convince you, wait until later this year when the 2015 Hurricane Season starts anew.....

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