2014 Was the Warmest Year Ever Recorded on Earth
Source: The New York Times, article by Justin Gillis
Runners in Siberia, which experienced record heat in 2014
Last year was the hottest in earth’s recorded history, scientists reported on Friday, underscoring scientific warnings about the risks of runaway emissions and undermining claims by climate-change contrarians that global warming had somehow stopped.
Extreme heat blanketed Alaska and much of the western United States last year. Several European countries set temperature records. And the ocean surface was unusually warm virtually everywhere except around Antarctica, the scientists said, providing the energy that fueled damaging Pacific storms.
In the annals of climatology, 2014 now surpasses 2010 as the warmest year in a global temperature record that stretches back to 1880. The 10 warmest years on record have all occurred since 1997, a reflection of the relentless planetary warming that scientists say is a consequence of human emissions and poses profound long-term risks to civilization and to the natural world.
Of the large inhabited land areas, only the eastern half of the United States recorded below-average temperatures in 2014, a sort of mirror image of the unusual heat in the West. Some experts think the stuck-in-place weather pattern that produced those extremes in the United States is itself an indirect consequence of the release of greenhouse gases, though that is not proven.
Several scientists said the most remarkable thing about the 2014 record was that it occurred in a year that did not feature El Niño, a large-scale weather pattern in which the ocean dumps an enormous amount of heat into the atmosphere.
Longstanding claims by climate-change skeptics that global warming has stopped, seized on by politicians in Washington to justify inaction on emissions, depend on a particular starting year: 1998, when an unusually powerful El Niño produced the hottest year of the 20th century.
With the continued heating of the atmosphere and the surface of the ocean, 1998 is now being surpassed every four or five years, with 2014 being the first time that has happened in a year featuring no real El Niño pattern. Gavin A. Schmidt, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in Manhattan, said the next time a strong El Niño occurs, it is likely to blow away all temperature records.
The Warmest Year on Record
Parts of the eastern United States were cooler than average last year, but globally 2014 was the warmest year in recorded history.
“Obviously, a single year, even if it is a record, cannot tell us much about climate trends,” said Stefan Rahmstorf, head of earth system analysis at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. “However, the fact that the warmest years on record are 2014, 2010 and 2005 clearly indicates that global warming has not ‘stopped in 1998,’ as some like to falsely claim.”
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I grew up around northern ontario 5 miles from Lake superior and never have I seen it completely frozen over now you know their spraying like crazy there… hmm let’s see the antarctic is melting at a fast pace ….methane gases bubbling from the oceans floors hmm could that be that the permafrost is melting…but yet over here in northern ontario all the large body’s of water are freezing over hmm did they spray too much to block out the sun rays…. all in all this is bs and it’s gotta stop
The skies in Sacramento were blue and beautiful this morning. I sat on the porch watching the spraying by more than one plane, thin vapor lines everywhere. A few hours later this vapor had spread so much that the sky looked as if it was covered in hazy clouds. It was scary, and the kids were on the play ground at school. How sad.
I like your thinking. Players sworn to secrecy are doing what they believe is best to curb global warming. If it pollutes, but slows down the process, it buys time. Reading into Global Engineering, there are strategies to get off fossil fuel and even increase carbon absorption. If given more time it should be used wisely.
They are not telling us for fear of panic. Also, this is an emergency that interrupts peoples comfortable lives.
This I know, you are not crazy, you are a great citizen and human being for caring.
I am past if?? Global Warming is the reason.
Caught an article of spraying clouds with sea water as one of the strategies. Coldest, snowiest East Coast records?
Is NOAA’s volunteer ships, monitoring el nino, green peace ships?Paradigm shift.
I have the mind of a soldier/engineer. Man has put too much carbon in the air, and that has made the sun a lion to tame. The strategies my mind thinks is, spray to buy time and reverse the carbon problem. Why don’t they tell us?
Well where I live in So. California, where does the population go when the water runs out?
They don’t tell us because of fear of panic.
I want to know if its working and what more I can do to put my hand to the wheel.
PS Several over 5.0 Earthquakes in the Pacific early Sunday January 31 our time on near Saipan Marianas, the other St. George Alaska, Thank you God. Followed by huge rainstorm in Central California. (Enough to kickstart El Nino?)
Also, we have had non spray days here in California as of February 10, 2015. WHY??
PSS El Nino has been a no show, and usually saves the day for the southwest. So I am anxious for it, to buy more time.
I live in Toronto Canada and our winter is a lot milder than it should be but people love it, when I try to tell them why it’s warmer they completely ignore me and continue to say how much better it is.
The last 2 years have been cold as heck in the winter and cool in the summer in the upper Midwest. Idiotic.
Hello JJ, yes, engineered cold since the all time record warm year of 2012 in the US. This is a psychological operation on the US population to create division and confusion. Remember 2012? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/09/science/earth/2012-was-hottest-year-ever-in-us.html?_r=0
This reality has place a tragic spin of the affects of spraying in our region 2 to 3 times monthly devastating our total environment
Walking 6 miles two days ago after a day or so after they sprayed my breath was so shallow I found myself stopping on occations to revamp my breathing as if my lungs were glued with this muck that lines our skies in Placer County..more people are coming together in this fight of spraying our beautiful once blue skies we must Stop completely before we are the ones paying deeply for this evil manuerver
I ask :does it (geoengeneering )started to cool the planet or started due to any global warming or climate change? I don´t think so!…when it started was many decades ago and for military reasons ,wasn´t it?(Owning the weather til 2025 is a military document )so experimentations with the clima started to serve military pourposes probably telecomunications or to drible the enemy.War was always in men species minds since the begining of Times :Power and control was always their real “target”.
Are they still using it for military reasons at first place and not as an elected program to fight global warming?…my mother always told me to look at the “begining”/”birth” of things and i will find the “essence” of things …but i´ve found no answer on this subject but just more questions and questions … cause we seem to know what they are doing and we know some of the techniques(SAG ,SRM ,HAARP )and the substances/chemicals sprayed but we don´t know or can see or understand all the true reasons behind these global programs…too much countries and diferent ideologies or systems involved together on this geoengeneering global assault! …This seems to be a much more complex program that was agreed by all countries and leaders in a place that i don´t know where.At any UN convenction? secretly? In bildeberg reunions? the secrecy is so big that makes no sense except that something is very wrong and probably they are hiding from us the real situation of our biosphere or to hide the result of their war plays and games in experiences to defeat the “enemies” (unfortunatly they don´t know that they are the only enemies of themselves ,of the planet and of all of us).Wars ,wars ,wars …so many time mankind lost in developing more sophisticated weapons ,and for what? …even the weather/clima needed to be controled to serve their pourposes?they probably opened a pandora box that they can´t control for much longer i´m afraid …and probably they want to keep it secret at all the cost! who wants to be held accountable? who wants populations ruining their chances of escaping if the situation gets dramatic? …this secrecy of something i see in my skies and everybody ignores it or say i´m crazy doesn´t make any sense to me and so many lies and blackouts from every place can´t be good!
Hello Ana, a big part of the initial climate engineering ramp up was in fact due to the power structures attempt to begin cooling a warming world. From the late 1940s to the early 1970s climate engineering did cause very anomalous cooling, but then the negative consequences of atmospheric aerosol spraying kicked in and the warming picked back up and has never stopped. Now, with all the negative consequences for climate engineering, the more they spray, the worse the overall warming will become. There was never any benevolence in the geoengineering programs, power and control were and are their goals. The link below will give you some insight into the anomalous mid century slow down of the warming. http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-cooling-mid-20th-century-advanced.htm
A little side note. Jim Cantore, weather man from our lovely weather channel friends (not) just posted on his FB page, ‘It’s so cool. 2014 officially recorded as the warmest year on record…duh, Jim… But you should see people’s response. Some are buying into these cool downs, exactly their objective. people said, how could it be so..? Where i live it’s been so cold… Yea, cold enough to numb your brains and distract you with ‘headlines’ wow.