February may have been the warmest month on record,

but we don’t know for sure — despite reports to the contrary.

I love headlines like this. All that scientific expertise and the experts can't be certain of their “facts.” Here's an excerpt:

But this record stretches back only to 1979. And satellites monitor temperatures up in the troposphere, not on the surface where we live.

Okay, we can now expect all sorts of charts and graphs like the one in the article and it appears that NONE of them will tell the whole story.

Read the full article @ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/i...nth-but-we-do-not-know-for-sure/#.VtsKINCVX1c

 

Actually what your article is saying is that while we have some satellite data, we still don't have all of it and we need ground data which is more accurate. This is because it was only three days since the end of February when the article was published. The problem the author sites is some journalists jumping to conclusions and making exaggerated stories when we don't have all the data yet. It takes time for all the data to come in and be reviewed and when that happens we will have the full picture.

 

Good, some of us hate the cold.

 

2017 Among Warmest Years On Record...

2017 Among Warmest Years On Record
January 18, 2018 - This past year, 2017, was among the warmest years on record, according to new data released by NASA and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration.