It's for not knowing what the word "globally" means. That is a pretty big hole in your own data.
Look at the equivalent data where it exists for South America, Europe, Africa or Asia. The majority have records set in the last 30 years.
Of course, none of the Northern hemisphere countries set their all-time record temperature in January so all-time records in the US are pretty irrelevant to the article.
The record was broken in 20 of the 50 countries in Europe in the last 10 years alone. Only 12 still have records standing from more than 30 years ago.
About half of records in Africa were broken in the last 20 years.
The majority of records in Asia and South America were broken in the last 20 years.
Anyway, this article is about temperatures in January, which means that all-time high temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere are irrelevant. Would it be meaningless if California hit 130°F in January just because it was once slightly hotter in July?
> There’s barely been a handful of record high temperatures broken in the last 3 decades out of 50 states
If they were talking about maximum recorded temperatures, your argument would've made sense.
However, they're talking about average temperatures, for which a 30 year range is certainly not meaningless.
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/scec/records/all/tmin
Around 10 were broken in the last 3 decades which is more than the around 7 broken for the max temperatures. If more min records are broken, then I would expect the average to be going down not up.
You would expect so but the data about temperature anomalies suggests the opposite:
Annual 2019 Average Temperature Anomalies in USA: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/201913/supplemental/...
Global Temperature Anomaly Mapping at a glance: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/
Global Climate Summary in 2019 https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-201912
The disruption of the polar vortex drops temperature significantly across Northern Europe but it can be caused by the warming of the atmosphere so even though it can cause record lows it is a short lasted event and on average the temperature is still going up.
That is also a side-effect of climate change, more powerful bursts of extreme weather.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records#Europe
30 records in the last 15 years vs 18 in the previous 100+
> Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized.
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
Possibly some of the downvotes are simply for not following the guidelines.
The raw data ALWAYS speaks for itself — out of the 50 U.S. state record high temperatures, 23 were set during the 1930s, while 36 occurred prior to 1960. There’s barely been a handful of record high temperatures broken in the last 3 decades out of 50 states:
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/scec/records/all/tmax
Edit: I am getting quite a few downvotes even though I linked to scientific data. Please let me know what the downvote is for, otherwise it’s disappointing a scientific community doesn’t want to engage in poking holes in the data.