Extreme Temperature Diary- May 18th, 2018/ Topic: Up Up and Away…Graphic Trends

 Friday May 18th… Dear Diary. The main purpose of this ongoing post will be to track United States extreme or record temperatures related to climate change. Any reports I see of ETs will be listed below the main topic of the day. I’ll refer to extreme or record temperatures as ETs (not extraterrestrials)😊. Here is today’s main climate change related topic:

Up Up and Away…Graphic Trends

Sometimes I don’t know whether to cry or laugh after seeing a myriad of updated charts each day in association with climate change. I constantly ask myself after seeing this onslaught of data, why don’t climate change denialists admit that they are in error? The simple answer is that in this day and age people don’t admit they are wrong so as not to look weak, but I was taught that a strong  person admits their errors, corrects them when possible, then presses on. Today I’m going to present some charts that I saw just this morning depicting the relentless increase of climate change effects.

A couple of days ago I tore apart an article basically saying that sea level rise was not due to carbon pollution. Here is yet more proof of the article’s error:

Scott Denning‏Verified account @airscottdenning

https://blog.ucsusa.org/guest-commentary/heres-why-seas-are-rising-somebody-remind-the-wall-street-journal

9:11 AM – 18 May 2018

3:03 PM – 17 May 2018

Marshall Shepherd‏Verified account @DrShepherd2013

Just fyi…pesky facts h/t @wildweatherdan and ipcc

5:43 AM – 18 May 2018

Next I saw this chart from Climate Central pertaining to western forest fires:

Climate Central‏Verified account @ClimateCentral

4:45 AM – 18 May 2018

Here is one of many charts in association with global temperature increase:

Stefan Rahmstorf‏ @rahmstorf

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NASA global temperature value for April is out. The hottest Aprils on record are 2016, 2017, 2018. #globalwarming#climatechange@NASAClimate

2:31 AM – 18 May 2018

The prior chart coincides with an increase in mainly fossil fuel global energy use:

Robert Rohde‏ @rarohde

Over 200 years, humanity’s energy system has been transformed from one based on wood and traditional biofuels to one dominated by fossil fuels.  This has benefited us greatly, but has ultimately left the world dependent on a finite and polluting resource.

1:34 AM – 18 May 2018

And, of course, in conjunction with the Meehl Surface Records Study I was a part of, my data files show this:

You get the picture. I could proverbially fill page after page with these charts. Tomorrow I’ll try to show how contrarians distort data making up some of these charts to fit their world view. In the scientific world distorting findings to get a desired outcome is the biggest sin or no no. Let’s see how shameless some really are.

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