Not Popular here but...: Warmest Ocean Temperatures on record for June.

Here is the Link to science daily. If you don't have that site bookmarked you really should try it out! (Great site and no, I don't own stock in it!) :)

That link:

[link to www.sciencedaily.com]

ScienceDaily (July 27, 2009) — The world’s ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for June, breaking the previous high mark set in 2005, according to a preliminary analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. Additionally, the combined average global land and ocean surface temperature for June was second-warmest on record. The global records began in 1880.

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All right, monthly Temperatures are only useful in a climate discussion as part of a trend and there are several meaningful factors to discuss with this new data. Of interest is that not only are the Ocean temperatures the warmest on record (ocean surface temps, not the whole ocean...) the land temperatures were the were the SIXTH highest on record and the combined land and ocean surface temperatures made this the second warmest June on record for the planetary temperature.

Of course a year is, well, a YEAR long and not 1/12th of a year, so what comes next we will have to wait and see...

But the actual data coming from the scientist WITH the data gathering devices, seems to be rather different than that coming from those that are in the press regularly speaking out against the current warming trend and theories around it.

Last Edited by Druid on 07/27/2009 11:35 PM