Tee47, i suggest that if you want to learn about AGW and climate change - though there is no evidence of that to date - you start reading material from reputable and credible sources.
these sources most assuredly do not include Internet sites funded by fossil fuel companies, which have an over-riding monetary incentive to lie. They also don’t include people like Stevo for instance who operates on a Because I Said So basis, as though anyone gives a rats about their opinion when measured against the considerable mass of accrued expert knowledge.
no, anyone with a genuine desire to learn - you, Jopo and other climate change denying noisemakers obviously don’t fall into this category - would seek information from places like NASA, NOAA, BoM, Csiro, UK Met Office etc.
these places employ experts in their field to help find out what’s going on, as opposed to paid tongues like Andrew Bolt, who fill otherwise white space around advertisements.
NASA and NOAA issued their global climate analysis for 2018 in early February 2019 on their Internet sites. Why Tee47 chooses to lie in denying Earth’s oceans are warming is anyone’s guess but why bother, Tee47 specialises in meaningless word salad.
NASA:
“Earth's global surface temperature in 2018 was the fourth warmest since 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
”Global temperatures in 2018 were 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (0.83 degrees Celsius) warmer than the 1951 to 1980 mean, according to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.
“Globally, 2018's temperatures rank behind those of 2016, 2017 and 2015. The past five years are, collectively, the warmest years in the modern record.“2018 is yet again an extremely warm year on top of a long-term global warming trend,” said GISS Director Gavin Schmidt.
”Since the 1880s, the average global surface temperature has risen about 2 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius). This warming has been driven in large part by increased emissions into the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases caused by human activities, according to Schmidt.
“Weather dynamics often affect regional temperatures, so not every region on Earth experienced similar amounts of warming.
” NOAA found the 2018 annual mean temperature for the contiguous 48 United States was the 14th warmest on record.
”Warming trends are strongest in the Arctic region, where 2018 saw the continued loss of sea ice. In addition, mass loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets continued to contribute to sea level rise.
“Increasing temperatures can also contribute to longer fire seasons and some extreme weather events, according to Schmidt.
“”The impacts of long-term global warming are already being felt — in coastal flooding, heat waves, intense precipitation and ecosystem change,” said Schmidt.
”NASA’s temperature analyses incorporate surface temperature measurements from 6,300 weather stations, ship- and buoy-based observations of sea surface temperatures, and temperature measurements from Antarctic research stations.”
