2017 was recorded as the third warmest year in the period 1880 to 2017, only beaten by 2016 and 2015. This was despite the lack of an El Nino, which is believed to have affected the temperatures in the two previous years. The anomaly was around 0.9 C above the average for the period.
Reference: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201713
Last Monday at the meeting of the Climate Action Council Society it was agreed that we should reform under the umbrella of the Transition Salt Spring Society. Initially we will become the Climate Action Council group. The motion was also passed to dissolve the Society as a separate entity, this may take a few months to be carried out by the BC Registrar of Companies but the Council will carry out all its work in the future under the new structure. The outstanding financial assets of the society will be transferred to a Climate Action Council folio held in the TSSS bank account.
“Two key climate change indicators — global surface temperatures and Arctic sea ice extent — have broken numerous records through the first half of 2016, according to NASA analyses of ground-based observations and satellite data.
Each of the first six months of 2016 set a record as the warmest respective month globally in the modern temperature record, which dates to 1880, according to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. The six-month period from January to June was also the planet’s warmest half-year on record, with an average temperature 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.4 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the late nineteenth century.
Five of the first six months of 2016 also set records for the smallest respective monthly Arctic sea ice extent since consistent satellite records began in 1979, according to analyses developed by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland. The one exception, March, recorded the second smallest extent for that month.”
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