Reply #4: I live south of you in Iowa [View All]

down in the part that is bright red when you see a drought map. We've sat here and watch rain go around us like we had cooties.
But what I am talking about is the whole world. I heard this on Day-to-Day on NPR. The NOAA spokesman said NOAA gets 7000 temperatures multiple times a day. These are then averaged to get a 'world average'. I am not going to debate the method. They've been doing this for decades.
Anyway, this is the hottest year since 1998. It is already so hot that only a worldwide cold snap could stop it from far surpassing 1998. The really scary part is that 1998 was a huge el-nino year and that explained the high temps that year. The only explanation this year appears to be global warming.