Don Enss
Last month wasn’t just the hottest July on record for the surface of earth. It continued the longest-ever streak of record-breaking months—15, according to data released on Wednesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). July followed the hottest June, May, April, March, February, January, December, November, October, and September, along with last August, July, June, and May.
The extremes of recent months are such that we're only midway into 2016, and there’s already a greater than 99 percent likelihood that this year will go down as the hottest on record, according to Gavin Schmidt, who directs NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. NASA and NOAA maintain independent records of the earth’s temperatures, and both agree that last month was a scorcher. "July 2016 was absolutely the hottest month since the instrumental records began," Schmidt wrote on Twitter.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-08-17/fires-floods-and-scorchers-earth-destroys-yet-another-heat-record
It's almost baffling that things such as this can be shown and publicized but mass numbers of people will still chalk it up to happenstance or say ohh that's not that big a problem. one or two maybe even three I could see the difference in opinion being acceptable but when its 15 straight months breaking records, I think the proof is pretty clear that there is an issue here, its just unfortunate that so many people still seem to show no urgency on the matter.
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