NOAA's June 2010 State of the Climate: Should We Be Afraid?

Another month. More climate records are broken. NOAA, the US government agency that compiles monthly stats for climate, recently reported that the world is getting hotter and quite quickly.

NOAA's State of the Climate for June 2010 highlights a number of new records:

"June was the fourth consecutive month that was the warmest on record for the combined global land and surface temperatures (March, April, and May were also the warmest)."

This was the 304th consecutive month with a combined global land and surface temperature above the 20th century average. The last month with below average temperatures was February 1985."

It was the warmest June on record for the land surfaces of the globe. Previous record was set in 2005. The land surface temperature exceeded the previous record by 0.11˚C (0.20˚F). This large difference over land contributed strongly to the overall global land and ocean temperature anomaly.

The worldwide oceans experienced the fourth warmest June on record. Sea surface temperatures across the eastern and central equatorial Pacific Ocean continued to decrease, damping ocean surface temperatures."

Not sure what's more scary: these stats, or the utterly reactionary response of climate change deniers to each new data release.

There's much more at State of the Climate for June 2010.