Will this summer bring an unusually greater number of record high temperatures?

Question

The past year and a half to two years could be an anomoly, and really wasn't that bad-I guess unless you live in Las Vegas where it broke the entire state record last year, which would seem hard to do. But with the advanced glacier melting, is it still too early to see sustained definite signs that are so obvious?

Answer 1

If you live in Las Vegas you will probably have another record heat year.  Have you seen the tens of thousands of houses almost entirely covering the valley?  

The Urban Heat Island must be Great!

Add to that 43,000,000 visitors every year + all the lights + jet planes coming and going every 5 minutes = you have a LOT of HEAT!!!

Answer 2

I think it gets higher somewhere every year depending on what news you listen to

Answer 3

Glacier formation in Antarctica is still absorbing an enormous amount of energy. The southern Oceans are still sending a lot of vapour onto the continent where it falls as snow. It takes a lot of energy to make snow.

This does not assure us that we will not see new highs, and it does not assure us that we will see them. What we can say with confidence is that the oceans have a capacity to absorb an awfully large amount of heat, even without warming up, as evaporation cuts in to stabilize temperatures.

We understand that our Nino-Nina cycle is driven by Pacific water absorbing heat from the air. Hard to make a convincing case that it would never happen a second year.

Answer 4

the earth has been hotter and cooler in the past you no! so the record temps is something like 50 years !!! so dont worry global warming is fake

the earth is currently emerging from a cold period (the 1800's) and the 1500 was the last warm period hotter than today, the earth naturally get hotter and colder every hundred years or so (only by like 1 degree or 1 not major)

so yes probably another record but co2 is around 1% of all green house gasses and we need the greenhouse effect to live!!

Answer 5

No.

Answer 6

Probably not.  It appears that the 32 year oscillation has begun to turn and we will probably see a mild cooling for the next 32 years.

Answer 7

Probably not, but every year there are record highs set SOMEWHERE all the time.  It will be BIG NEWS everytime it happens and global warming will be cited as the cause.