Psst, Benwas, Menta, regret to inform that while your upcoming Ice Age must surely be a month closer than it was a month ago, there was no sign of any drift towards that fantasy in NASA’s average surface temperature report for June 2018.
But don’t let this get in the way of your childish dream.
Obviously one way to deal with bad news is just to lie about it and say it’s wrong. Or claim that NASA are dodging figures up, Or that they turned the graph upside down, or any of the other sillly assertions you both are prone to make in defending the indefensible.
The following comes from NASA’s Internet site and was issued Monday. Regret it pricks your balloon but now that you’re wearing long pants it might be time to grow up.
“June 2018 Ties for Third Warmest June on Record
Posted July 16, 2018
The GISTEMP monthly temperature anomalies superimposed on a 1980-2015 mean seasonal cycle. — View larger image or PDF
June 2018 continued the warming trend of the past 40 years. According to the monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, the past month surpassed the 1951-1980 June mean by +0.77°C. It tied with June 1998 as the third warmest June in 138 years of modern record-keeping, with only June 2015 and 2016 (+0.80°C and +0.79°C) being warmer.
The mean temperature anomalies of +0.77°C for both June 1998 and June 2018 cannot be distinguished from each other given the uncertainty of the measurement. However, June 1998 was exceptionally warm at the time due to the then prevailing strong El Niño conditions — about 0.33°C above the trend line of the late 1990s. In contrast, the current El Niño phase is considered neutral. The temperature anomaly for June 2018 is similar to other recent monthly mean temperature anomalies, and lies within the expected range of +0.75±0.05°C.
A global map of the June 2018 LOTI (land-ocean temperature index) anomaly, relative to the 1951-1980 June average. — View larger image
The monthly analysis by the GISS team is assembled from publicly available data acquired by about 6,300 meteorological stations around the world, ship- and buoy-based instruments measuring sea surface temperature, and Antarctic research stations.
The modern global temperature record begins around 1880 because previous observations didn't cover enough of the planet. Monthly analyses are sometimes updated when additional data becomes available, and the results are subject to change.
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For more information on NASA GISS's monthly temperature analysis, visit:data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp.
