{"id":2233,"date":"2012-07-10T08:53:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T12:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2233"},"modified":"2012-07-10T08:54:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T12:54:32","slug":"u-s-sees-hottest-12-months-and-hottest-half-year-on-record-noaa-calls-record-heat-a-one-in-1-6-million-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/07\/u-s-sees-hottest-12-months-and-hottest-half-year-on-record-noaa-calls-record-heat-a-one-in-1-6-million-event\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Sees Hottest 12 Months And Hottest Half Year On Record: NOAA Calls Record Heat A One-In-1.6-Million Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like a baseball player on steroids, our atmosphere has been \u201cjuiced\u201d with human emissions of greenhouse gases, which means we are going to be breaking heat records at an \u201cunnatural\u201d pace for a long, long time. \u00a0Climatologist Richard Alley offers a different analogy<a href=\"http:\/\/energy.nationaljournal.com\/2012\/07\/is-global-warming-causing-wild.php#2223591\"> in a column today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Humans have made some extreme weather events more likely, and they are happening.<\/p>\n<p>Just as a back-street gambler might beat someone in an honest game but has a better chance with loaded dice, Nature might have caused this summer\u2019s weather but we gave it a boost. More importantly, under business as usual, today\u2019s children may one day think of this summer as cool.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How extreme has the weather been in 2012?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0U.S. Climate Extremes Index (USCEI), an index that tracks the highest and lowest 10 percent of extremes in temperature, precipitation, drought and tropical cyclones across the contiguous U.S., was a record-large 44 percent during the January-June period, over twice the average value. Extremes in warm daytime temperatures (83 percent) and warm nighttime temperatures (70 percent) covered large areas of the nation, contributing to the record high value.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here\u2019s the chart:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2012\/07\/09\/513425\/us-sees-hottest-12-months-and-hottest-half-year-on-record-noaa-calls-record-heat-a-one-in-16-million-event\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/cei_jan-jun.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE: \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2012\/07\/09\/513425\/us-sees-hottest-12-months-and-hottest-half-year-on-record-noaa-calls-record-heat-a-one-in-16-million-event\/\">U.S. Sees Hottest 12 Months And Hottest Half Year On Record: NOAA Calls Record Heat A One-In-1.6-Million Event | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a baseball player on steroids, our atmosphere has been \u201cjuiced\u201d with human emissions of greenhouse gases, which means we are going to be breaking heat records at an \u201cunnatural\u201d pace for a long, long time. \u00a0Climatologist Richard Alley offers a different analogy in a column today: Humans have made some extreme weather events more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[257,22,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}