NOAA: Warmest April Global Temperature on Record

Last month was the warmest April on record.  This finding was already published here, but we need to highlight it because the deniers are still repeating the ridiculous claim that the oceans are not warming and neither is the climate.   That misinformation is still popping up everywhere, recently by a man who calls himself Lord Monckton in his testimony to Congress.   Last weekend there was another fake-science conference, sponsored by the Heartland Foundation (a right-wing fringe organization), advertised as being about the “reality” of global warming.   But like Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s fake forum on global warming last spring (that I attended), it was actually just a big meeting for the purpose of trying to disprove climate change and encourage the U.S. government and business to do nothing about it. This is the official plan of the Republicans. Do Nothing About It. You can shorten that to “do nothing” which is the ongoing mantra of the Republican Party for every issue.

That is why every bit of proof and data of climate change is important.  The conservatives, at their little right-wing conference, presented misleading charts and graphs, creatively using dates and numbers that fit their anti-science arguments, so that the public will be more likely to believe them. Most people know and understand that the oceans are warming and global warming is continuing, but planting doubt, as conservatives do, prevents action on this crisis.   Lack of action will ensure that companies like British Petroleum and Exxon and Massey Energy won’t have to change their ways and that protects shareholders and people invested in these multi-billion-dollar companies. But most people with a functioning mind and BS radar know the drill, there is no need to go into all that in detail.  With conservatives, it’s all about protecting their bank accounts, not the planet.

Below are more global warming facts from Dotearth.  This is more help in being armed with global warming facts, are because the deniers are ramping up their efforts. There is a slight possibility that an energy bill might pass this year, and they are going to do everything they can to stop it.  So, they will lie, and make things up, which is the general MO for the Republicans opposing legislation on energy and climate change. NOAA doesn’t make things up.

NOAA: Warmest April Global Temperature on Record

Also Warmest January-April

May 17, 2010 — The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for both April and for the period from January-April, according to NOAA. Additionally, last month’s average ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for any April, and the global land surface temperature was the third warmest on record.

The monthly analysis from NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center, which is based on records going back to 1880, is part of the suite of [...]