March 2012 was easily the warmest March in the lower tropospheric satellite record across the continental United States. How warm was it globally? Globally, March 2012 averaged 0.075 Celsius above normal, according to Remote Sensing Systems, which makes it the 3rd coolest March since 2000. February 2012 averaged 0.120 Celsius below normal. Despite the recent, short-term cooling, the longer decadal-temperature

The new satellite measured temperature anomaly data for the month of November has been released by Remote Sensing Systems (RSS). According to RSS, the November global temperature anomaly for the lower troposphere was +0.033 C, which you can basically say is practically normal. This makes November 2011 the coolest November globally for the lower troposphere since 2000. We have not

Satellite measured temperature anomaly data for the lower troposphere was just released from Remote Sensing Systems. Too no real surprise, October 2011 trended cooler overall across most of the planet, however, despite the drop off, the global temperature anomaly was still a shade above normal, coming in at +0.089 C. Overall, October 2011 will go down as the 15th coolest

Evaporated water from vegetation such as trees not only cools the local climate, but also the Earth as a whole, as new research now indicates. Those trees that are planted in parks and streets in major cities keep the cities cooler than what they would normally be without them, but those same trees also have a cooling influence on the

The summer of 2011 was the fifth warmest on record in the northern hemisphere since records began back in 1880, according to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Global picture of temperature anomalies for June-August 2011. Images courtesy of GISS. The average land/sea combined surface temperature for the northern hemisphere during the June-August time period was 0.63 celsius above normal.

August 2011 was the sixth warmest August on record globally for the lower troposphere, according to Remote Sensing Systems, as measured by microwave sounding data from satellites. The satellite measured records go back to 1979. Globally, August 2011 was +.291 celsius above normal over land/sea combined, according to RSS. In the continental U.S., the average temperature for the month of
