February NOAA

Shut. Up. NOAA says February 2nd Warmest on Record

gregladen | March 19, 2015

And by "Shut. Up." I mean shut up about whether or not global warming is real. The National Climatic Data Center of NOAA has just released the number representing the Earth's surface temperature for February and it is a shocking 0.82 degrees C above the 20th century average. This is the second warmest Feb on record, and I'm pretty sure it is the third warmest month on record, in that data base. Roughly speaking, the coldest we have experienced, the Last Glacial Maximum, was about 6 degrees colder than at present. It is generally thought that we need to keep the global surface temperature…

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