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New Record Earth Temps Measured

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NASA: Easily the hottest April — and hottest Jan-April — in temperature record
Plus a new record 12-month global temperature, as predicted


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It was the hottest April on record in the NASA dataset. More significantly, following fast on the heels of the hottest March and hottest Jan-Feb-March on record, it’s also the hottest Jan-Feb-March-April on record [click on figure to enlarge].

The record temperatures we’re seeing now are especially impressive because we’ve been in “the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century.” It now appears to be over. It’s just hard to stop the march of manmade global warming, well, other than by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, that is.

Most significantly, NASA’s March prediction has come true: “It is nearly certain that a new record 12-month global temperature will be set in 2010.″

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But this is just the National Academy of Science. What do they know?

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Climate Scientists Urge Aggressive Action to Curb Global Warming

"In what's being called "the most comprehensive report ever on climate change," the National Academy of Sciences urged aggressive action to curb global warming, including a cap-and-trade program and taxes on carbon emissions.

Three studies requested by Congress issued Wednesday provide the broad outlines for a national strategy to deal with climate change, The Los Angeles Times reported. Two more studies are still to come.

Bold actions are necessary because "climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming ... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans," said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy."

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Regarding the notion that research climatologists are fudging the science for the money:
"...people have implied that scientists can only get grant money for trying to prove AGW and not for trying to disprove it, but this isn't really possible given the method behind research. For any given study, a hypothesis is posed, data is measured, and the data is compared to the hypothesis. If the two are disagreeable, the researcher reports that the hypothesis is false; if the hypothesis is validated by the data, this too is reported.

You can't construct an experiment to "invalidate" AGW that wouldn't also validate it if observations don't match the hypothesis that AGW is false. Prior to conducting an experiment, you can't know what the results will be, so grant money can't realistically be awarded in a prejudicial manner towards studies that either support or contradict AGW theory, since any study on AGW theory has the capacity to do either."
Where has the heat gone?
...where has all the heat accumulated gone? Most people are used to discussing the ‘Climate’ as the temperature of the Air. But this is only one place where the accumulated energy from AGW has gone. The other locations are the Land itself has warmed, The Cryosphere (Ice) has absorbed heat and melted. And the oceans have absorbed heat as well. How much heat has gone where. The following paper, Murphy et al (http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2 ... 2105.shtml) looks at this. So do a number of others. The rough breakdown is as follows. Air – 3%, Land - 5%, Cryosphere – 2% and Oceans – 90%. What we normally think of as the climate only accounts for 3% of the extra heat. The oceans are holding 30 times that amount.

How much Heat. Murphy et al report that since 1950, accumulated heat is 2 * 10^23 Joules. A joule isn’t much heat at all. But 200000000000000000000000 Joules surely is. To put that into more real world & visceral terms, that’s the equivalent of
3 BILLION HIROSHIMA BOMBS.

That’s an average of 2 Hiroshima Bombs a second for over 50 years.
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