Oh poop, crap, scat!.
Each month of 2016 has been a record hot month. (Even though 2015 was wicked record hot with 10 months matching or exceeding record highs!)
April blew past the last record in 2015 by a mile or two (+0.28 C or +0.43 F). [See NASA summary data here. Note that you have to go back to 1992 to find the first negative monthly number (-1) below average, and much further to the 1970s to find a year with a good spattering of negative numbers (below the mean).]
If the first quarter holds true in predicting the full year, 2016 will take us to about +1.3 d C, almost three-forths of the way to that magical +2 d Centigrade that so many scientist warn we need to stay away from.
Good news, we’ll be able to navigate the north pole by boat & barge form months this year. China’s gonna love that, avoiding the Panama Canal.
The early thaw and dry conditions results in ugly fire conditions as demonstrated by the Alberta fires.
Ironically, the fires caused by global warming, aggravate and accentuate the very factors that cause — you guessed it, global warming.
And, in a double irony, the oil sands have a very heavy carbon footprint and environmental footprint. (Do a Google search on Alberta “Oil Sands before and after”.) Visit Canadian TV News to look at McMurray fires.
Fire and no ice!.
Hot. Sad, True.
Poop!:-(