Interesting NOAA Graphic On Temperatures - 2012 Plotted Against Existing Record

[hatrack]

[NYC_SKP]

1. 2012 looks frighteningly like something post-tipping point, doesn't it?

[Nederland]

2. Graph is US lower 48 temperatures only

Globally this year will probably not be a record.

[Emillereid]

3. Can you provide a link

[happyslug]

4. Here is other graphics from the NOAA

For a Graphic of the hottest five years:



http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/2012/6/supplemental/page-5/



http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/2012/7/supplemental/page-5

Look long enough you find it at the NOAA

[Kablooie]

5. You realize that this year's temperatures are only the starting point.

If the predictions come true, temperatures will continue to rise for decades or possibly centuries to come. The heat of this summer may become the bottom baseline.

It already is nearing uninhabitable tmperatures in some areas and is likely exceed that in the near future. It's getting scary shockingly fast. One would expect major climate changes to occur over centuries but it looks like it may only take a few years.

I wonder how cities will fare with Death Valley temperatures becoming common?