Earlier this year people were saying that 2007 was on track to be the warmest on record. Is that still true? If not, when was?
2007-11-07 05:52:22 · 11 answers · asked by Larry 4 in Environment ➔ Global Warming
No, 2007 is going to miss the record by a huge amount.
Depending on how you twist the facts, either 1934 or 1998 were the warmest year on record.
Either way, the planet is no longer warming. The temperatures are either stable or slightly declining.
Global warming is over.
2007-11-07 05:57:21 · answer #1 · answered by Dr Jello 7 · 8⤊ 5⤋
2007 was on track to be the warmest on record, but we've had a few cold months recently. Apparently at this point if you take the average of the various global temperature measurement databases, it will most likely go 1998, 2005, 2007 as the hottest on record (depending on what happens in November and December).
Whether or not 2007 is the hottest year on record is irrelevant. As Bob says, that's why we take 5 or 10 year averages - the trend is what's important, not any one given year. The trend shows that global warming continues to accelerate.
2007-11-07 11:03:20 · answer #2 · answered by Dana1981 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-15 09:12:18 · answer #3 · answered by federica 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No maybe not this year it has gotten cold recently ,1998 2005, 1940 were the hottest summers and also hottest years in Sydney Australia.Individual hot days were once 46 Celsius in 1940 and twice 45 Celsius 2004 and 2005, i would say its odds on for at least one 47 Celsius Day this Dec-.Jan.
2007-11-07 11:34:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Quite possibly. But it doesn't matter.
The only important thing is the long term trend. Individual years jump around a lot (hence the pointless discussions about 1934 or 1998 or any particular year), but the long term trend is clear.
A five year rolling average is a common choice, a very standard (ie unbiased) scientific way of showing trends in "noisy" data like this. Here's a good graph from NASA, showing both the individual year variability, and the clear trend. That trend hasn't changed much since 1975 or so.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.lrg.gif
Any one year can be just strange weather. The five year rolling average is a far better measure of climate.
2007-11-07 10:52:45 · answer #5 · answered by Bob 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
no, it was not 2005 and will not be this year. the warmest year was 1998. Global warming just means the average temperature is higher not that each individual year will be the hottest ever.
2007-11-07 06:59:35 · answer #6 · answered by rack922 2 · 7⤊ 0⤋
nope, the warmest year on record was about 70 years ago, in the 1930's. and if we had records that went back 1000 years, i would posit that there would be several years warmer than any in the last 100.
2007-11-07 06:45:04 · answer #7 · answered by Act D 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
It was 2005.
2007-11-07 05:57:00 · answer #8 · answered by BLAIRwaldorf 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Not this year. Time to start the global cooling debate.
2007-11-07 06:25:26 · answer #9 · answered by enicolls25 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
2005 was the hottest 'm still sweating just thinking about it!
2007-11-07 06:03:19 · answer #10 · answered by Amo la pallacanestro 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋