November warmest month on record by huge margin

Last month was the warmest November on record by an incredible margin, according to NASA measurements. The global average temperature for the month was 1.05 degrees Celsius, or about 1.9 degrees Fahrenheit, warmer than the 1951 to 1980 average. It’s also the second month in a row that Earth’s temperature exceeded 1 degree Celsius above average.

It was just in October that our planet first exceeded the 1-degree benchmark in NASA’s records, dating to 1880. Prior to that, the largest anomaly was 0.97 degrees Celsius in January 2007.

Read The Washington Post Story - “November was Earth’s warmest such month on record by a huge margin.”

Climate change impacts on everything, including our memories

Memory is to be celebrated, particularly if it is reliable, but frequently facts demonstrate that it is not to be trusted.

The switch from Fahrenheit to Celsius has worsened the reliability of memories, particularly among those whose youth was measured in Fahrenheit temperatures and now, much later in life, they are experiencing temperature in Celsius.

For many older people 100° Fahrenheit was frightfully hot and now they seem to equate that with 40° Celsius, which is in fact, on the old scale, is 104° Fahrenheit.

It was in April 1975 that Australia switched to the metric measurement of heat and it seems that those still locked in that time warp are yet to really understand the earth is warming and that the “hot” of the past is not the “hot” of today.

Temperatures of 45° Celsius have been historically rare in Australia’s major population centres in decades past, but as this century unfolds, they will become increasingly common - 45° Celsius is 113° Fahrenheit!

It is worth noting that at the time of writing this (4:48pm, February 2, 2014); the temperature in Shepparton is 41.2°C which on the old scale is 106.1°F.