{"id":15551,"date":"2013-01-23T11:33:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T17:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=15551"},"modified":"2013-01-23T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T17:33:08","slug":"2012-was-the-hottest-year-on-record-noaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/23\/2012-was-the-hottest-year-on-record-noaa\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Was The Hottest Year on Record (NOAA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>NOAA says 2012 was the hottest year on record.<\/H3><\/p>\n<p>According to the National Climatic Data Center of NOAA, 2012 was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/news\/ncdc-announces-warmest-year-record-contiguous-us\">the hottest year on record in the US lower 48<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to NOAA scientists, the average temperature for the contiguous U.S. for 2012 was 55.3\u00b0F, which was 3.2\u00b0F above the 20th century average and 1.0\u00b0F above the previous record from 1998. The year consisted of the fourth warmest winter, a record warm spring, the second warmest summer, and a warmer-than-average autumn. Although the last four months of 2012 did not bring the same unusual warmth as the first 8 months of the year, the September through December temperatures were warm enough for 2012 to remain the record warmest year, by a wide margin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15552\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15552\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2013\/01\/Hottest_Year_On_Record_Global_Warming_TemperatureAnomaly2012_720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2013\/01\/Hottest_Year_On_Record_Global_Warming_TemperatureAnomaly2012_720-640x469.jpg?resize=604%2C443\" alt=\"Map showing Hottest Year on Record for the US\" title=\"Hottest_Year_On_Record_Global_Warming_TemperatureAnomaly2012_720\" width=\"604\" height=\"443\" class=\"size-large wp-image-15552\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Global Warming made 2012 the Hottest Year: This map shows where the 2012 temperatures were different from the 1981\u20132010 average. Shades of red indicate temperatures up to 8\u00b0 Fahrenheit warmer than average, and shades of blue indicate temperatures up to 8\u00b0 Fahrenheit cooler than average\u2014the darker the color.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA says 2012 was the hottest year on record. According to the National Climatic Data Center of NOAA, 2012 was the hottest year on record in the US lower 48: According to NOAA scientists, the average temperature for the contiguous U.S. for 2012 was 55.3\u00b0F, which was 3.2\u00b0F above the 20th century average and 1.0\u00b0F &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/23\/2012-was-the-hottest-year-on-record-noaa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2012 Was The Hottest Year on Record (NOAA)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[148,97,20,2987,3597],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-42P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}