Over 15,000 Records Broken as March 2012 Becomes Warmest on Record

According to NOAA scientists at the National Climatic Data Center (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/), record and near-record breaking temperatures dominated the eastern two-thirds of the nation and contributed to the warmest March on record for the contiguous United States, a record that dates back to 1895. This animation shows the locations of each of the 7,755 daytime and 7,517 nighttime records (or tied records) in sequence over the 31 days in March.

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[David Dobson]

We know for certain it is man made, you meant to say. Silly mistake.

[Tim Kubik, Ph.D.]

Love fun with data, especially when it proves a point!

[Jesse Maurais]

Citing a bunch of solar flares isn't proving a point. If you want to make the case that the temperature on Earth is correlated with the Sun then you would need data indicating this trend. However, the data already collected about historic temperatures states pretty clearly that the late industrial age is substantially warmer. This would not be the case if solar cycles were to account for it, because the cycle would also be found in the data we've collected so far.

[MysterEy1]

watch my doomsday vlog.

[MysterEy1]

well cited.

[centerM87]

It is premature to be saying that Global Warming is occuring and that this year is proof of this trend. Why? The dynamics of the the relationship between weather on earth and space weather is admitted to be poorly understood. March also saw earth directed CME's. March 5 Strong Solar activity. March 7 Another major flare. March 9 CME targets earth. March 15 A CME from AR 1429. March 24 another CME from AR 1429.

[Branny Cespedes]

We are going to get fried, aren't we?

[xchopp]

Conspiracy theory paranoia.... really? Can you let us all know how NASA and NOAA are doing this?

[xchopp]

No, the figures cannot be owing to urban heat island effects... because scientists at NOAA have controlled for this effect (go on, look up the BEST temperature record, or google this -- you will find that the UHI has no important impact on the large-scale, long-term surface temperature record). I am also surprised to see such an eminent scientist as yourself writing on yt: after all, if you've disproved radiative transfer theory you really ought to use your real name!

[xchopp]

Quote: "the temperature... variates" -- variates? Is that even a word? Yes, it is -- but it's a noun, not a verb. Ah, everyone is an expert -- even those who cannot apparently string a sentence together.

[xchopp]

Who's Geroge Bush? That dude sure has a weird name...

[4v10h17r19d20]

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