From the NOAA press release, just in time for Copenhagen. Of course the satellite record for August tells another story that is not quite so alarming as NCDC’s take on it.
AMS Fellow and CCM, Joe D’Aleo of ICECAP has this to say about it:.
Icecap Note: to enable them to make the case the oceans are warming, NOAA chose to remove satellite input into their global ocean estimation and not make any attempt to operationally use Argo data in the process. This resulted in a jump of 0.2C or more and ‘a new ocean warmth record’ in July. ARGO tells us this is another example of NOAA’s inexplicable decision to corrupt data to support political agendas.
– Anthony
Global surface temperature anomalies for the month of August 2009. Temperature is compared to the average global temperature from 1961-1990.
Visualization of world’s land and ocean surface temperature.
High resolution (Credit: NOAA)
The world’s ocean surface temperature was the warmest for any August on record, and the warmest on record averaged for any June-August (Northern Hemisphere summer/Southern Hemisphere winter) season according to NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. The preliminary analysis is based on records dating back to 1880.
NCDC scientists also reported that the combined average global land and ocean surface temperature for August was second warmest on record, behind 1998. For the June-August 2009 season, the combined global land and ocean surface temperature was third warmest on record.
Global Highlights – Summer
- The June-August worldwide ocean surface temperature was also the warmest on record at 62.5 degrees F, 1.04 degrees F above the 20th century average of 61.5 degrees F.
- The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for the June-August season was 61.2 degrees F, which is the third warmest on record and 1.06 degrees F above the 20th century average of 60.1 degrees F.
Global Highlights – August
- The worldwide ocean surface temperature of 62.4 degrees F was the warmest on record for any August, and 1.03 degrees F above the 20th century average of 61.4 degrees F.
- Separately, the global land surface temperature of 58.2 degrees F was 1.33 degrees F above the 20th century average of 56.9 degrees F, and ranked as the fourth warmest August on record.
- Large portions of the world’s land mass observed warmer-than-average temperatures in August. The warmest departures occurred across Australia, Europe, parts of the Middle East, northwestern Africa, and southern South America. Both Australia and New Zealand had their warmest August since their records began.
- The Southern Hemisphere average temperatures for land and ocean surface combined were the warmest on record for August.
Other Notable Developments
Current sea ice extent as measured by NOAA’s GOES, POES, and DMSP satellites.
High resolution (Credit: NOAA)
- For the year to date, the combined global land and ocean surface temperature of 58.3 degrees F tied with 2003 for the fifth-warmest January-August period on record. This value is 0.99 degree F above the 20th century average.
- According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Arctic sea ice covered an average of 2.42 million square miles during August. This is 18.4 percent below the 1979-2000 average extent, and is generally consistent with a decline of August sea ice extent since 1979.
- NSIDC data indicated Antarctic sea ice extent in August was 2.7 percent above the 1979-2000 average. This is consistent with the trend during recent decades of modest increases in August Antarctic sea ice extent.
Watch NOAA’s visualization of the world’s land and ocean surface temperature.
NOAA understands and predicts changes in the Earth’s environment, from the depths of the oceans to surface of the sun, and conserves and manages our coastal and marine resources.
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.html
The Unisys data has shown an overall cool or normal oceanic temps throughout the summer.
Pay more in taxes to the government, so the government can pretend those taxes are controlling the weather. Air tight scam.
And isn’t this the real problem with government pretend scientists telling you it’s getting warm.
Mary Hinge ,
(is that an anagram?)
No, a Spoonerism.
Is it all that hot ocean water, “warmest on record,” that is responsible for the record number of tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic this season? Oh wait…what tropical storms? What hurricanes?
How long can their blatant lie continue?
[snip] As it is a known fact argo buoys were adjusted because were showing a too pronounced cooling of the seas which didn´t agree with their “models”.
@ur momisugly Bob Tisdale
ARGO may only surface only every 10 days, but it would still provide valuable comparison data. How often does ARGO release their data for public consumption?
Since NOAA removed the OI.v2 data, was that for the entire record or just beginning last November?
I love how NOAA somehow always shows the temps going up no matter what.I can just see it now .WORST WINTER ever and temps are warmest ever. Why is it so hard for those at NOAA to report accurate facts and not biased on the warm side?How much is Obama and AL paying you ?
Does anybody know how to pull usable data out of the ARGO site. I went to the FTP service, but the files can be anything between 3-300 megabytes for each day, and look like gobbledegook (.nc file format, why not XML at least?), and what information can be read mostly looks extraneous. The http service takes ages to load and cannot “provide temperature data because the dataset is too big”.
I can’t believe that with all that information, there isn’t somebody crunching the data and providing usable data from it. Is it being held back, I wonder?
Seems an awful waste to be spending all that money deploying these and gathering data for it, and not to then use it.
I noticed they said “sea surface” but not “total ocean heat”.
Let me tell you a relevant story. A few weeks ago, I was on a beach vacation here in North Carolina. The Gulf Stream gives North Carolina that unique look on the eastern side, so the ocean here is very warm. Ocean surface temperatures were about 85 degrees F. And then, one day it was cool and rainy. Surface temperature fell to 75 and then crept back up to 80. I am no oceanographer or weather expert. But I think that sea surface temperatures have a volatility. Because of that, I believe it is the deep water temperature you should be concerned about. Please correct me if I am wrong.
I do know hurricanes are heat engines, transporting heat from the tropics toward the polars. How many hurricanes have we had this year? In the Atlantic, 2 hurricanes and several tropical storms. But not many. In fact, the Atlantic tropics are quiet, nothing on the horizon for at least 3 days even though this is peak season. Hurricanes churn up the water. Since the ocean has been calmer due to fewer storms, I would expect that the deep water would stay deep. Since NOAA referred to surface water and total ocean heat content, they are clearly cherry-picking for their agenda.
Joe D’Aleo:
CORRECTION: In an earlier comment I wrote, “Why would they include ARGO data? The ARGO floats are only on the surface once every 10 days. The rest of the time they are subsurface.”
I have looked and I cannot find a NOAA document that says they exclude ARGO data from their OI.v2 or ERSST.v3b datasets. On what are you basing your statement that “NOAA chose to… …not make any attempt to operationally use Argo data in the process?”
Regards
Errrr, it does, very clearly! Maybe you should just take a look at the satellite data yourself, there is a link to the AMSU site at the top left of this page. You really should check out the facts yourself instead of relying on misinformational opiniations.
Considering the low TSI, we sure are lucky to have El Nino buying us a few more seasons of this lovely weather. I hate to see what’s gonna happen when oceans are no longer driving warmer temps. One elementary thought on warm(est) surface temps vs low hurricane activity: Are we missing the upper atmosphere/ troposphere conditions it takes to collide with the surface temps?? I know we had very warm troposphere data recently, but that’s the result of heat releasing from El Nino… not radiative forcing, right? In no way do I mean to pretend that I know what I’m talking about.
Can anyone tell me how many times is this now?
How many times has NOAA or NASA been caught cooking the climate books?
In my mind it is at least 4 in the last two years.
Remember when they graphed summer temps onto fall data? (Is it spelled graphed or graft???)
How bout when they “recalculated” past temps downward? The only apparrently obvious reason being to create warmer present temperatures by contrast.
How bout the continuing fiasco with the surface stations?
Can someone give me a few prime examples to send to my new Florida Senator?
“I’m beginning to smell a big, fat commie rat!”
-Gen. Buck Turgidson
That’s because they were, especially in the east of the country. The rotating globe shows this well.
Steven Skinner, I remember 1976 as I graduated that year, it was stinking hot all year, the reservoirs had evaporated and we were having baths in 2″ of water. Before starting work I went down to the SW coast for a couple of months to see the best of summer out and as far as I remember the hot dry conditions were around virtually all year. Maybe there were some hotter days in the super hot 90’s but 1976 was the hottest year that I can remember overall.
To be pure as a scientist, one must remain skeptical.
So we are battling the question of increased surface temps causing hurricanes. We can aggree that hurricanes reduce surface temps. Heavy rainfall takes a lot of energy out by reason of condensation. We need a sister planet for controlled studies.
This reminds me of the “Hippy-dippy Weatherman” back in the early ’60s, where missile defence amounted to the DEW-line with Nike missles solely anti-aircraft batteries.
!Bam is dropping European defences just in time for Iranian extortion. Meanwhile, he’s given Israel an eviction notice: “Are there no empty ships? Find Zion on your own.”
The strong horses are saddled and lathered. I wouldn’t sweat 0.2 C, it’ll be a whole bunch hotter shortly.
I find this all very amusing. Everytime some miniscule data set comes to light everyone jumps up and down on each side. Geology was the subject that started me on this journey and from a strictly geologic viewpoint this entire discussion of “climate change” is silly. Of course their will be climate change! I am just so very thankful that i was born during an interglacial period, ice ages really suck. Warming is NOT the problem. Noone knows when the next ice age will start and it amazes me that we get so very excited over a .6 c change that may or may not have occured. We know for a fact we will see another ice age and yet noone is preparing for what we know for certain will be a catastrophic event that will kill millions if not billions of human beings. It is truly the silly season!
Hey, they are showing a warm Northeast USA.
They year in which the leaves started changing in Aug. Yeah, that is warm. No it’s not due to low rain fall. Also, tell me why farmers are having problems getting hay in? It’s not due to hot or dry.
Does NASA really think no one can remember 1 month ago?
If everyone is aware of this manipulation, how can they ‘get away” with it?
Unless the oceans warmed up about 0.7°C since July… NOAA’s assertion that ocean temperatures are at a record high is simply false.
UAH Land vs Ocean
Vincent (04:58:26) :
Mary Hinge ,
(is that an anagram?)
No, it’s a spoonerism
Check this out. The chief “scientist” of California Air Resources Board (CARB) got his “degree” by mail order for $1000.
As long as you are “in theme” it doesn’t matter if you lie, have a phony degree, whatever. The corruption of science continues.
To date we have had a very tranquil tropical cyclone season in both the Atlantic and Pacific. Inasmuch as these TCs function to transport heat from the tropics to the poles, their absence may be a contributor to both SST warming (lack of heat engines draining cals) and what looks like some pretty frigid arctic weather (lack of tranported tropical energy).