“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.
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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.
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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.....
Here’s
the link:
NASA Twitter Feed: @NASA
NOAA Twitter Feed: @NOAA
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