Earth just experienced its hottest-ever October

[Gefn]

Last month was the hottest ever October on record globally, according to data released Friday by the Copernicus Climate Change Service, an organization that tracks global temperatures. The month, which was reportedly 1.24 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the average October from 1981-2010, narrowly beat October 2015 for the top spot.

According to Copernicus, most of Europe, large parts of the Arctic and the eastern U.S. and Canada were most affected. The Middle East, much of Africa, southern Brazil, Australia, eastern Antarctica and Russia also experienced above-average temperatures.

Parts of tropical Africa and Antarctica and the western U.S. and Canada felt much colder than usual, however.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earth-just-experienced-its-hottest-october-ever/

[Wingnut]

I don't believe them.  Sorry.  It's all a crock of global warming BS. 

[Gefn]

I don't believe them.  Sorry.  It's all a crock of global warming BS.

It’s warmer where I live. And winters aren’t as snowy, it’s weird. I don’t know if it’s global warming but it’s definitely not a little ice age.

[skeeter]

I don't believe them.  Sorry.  It's all a crock of global warming BS.

It's all true. Weather changes.

[TomSea]

Check next week's forecast though, some inordinately cold temperatures for November are in the forecast for some of the USA.

[Jazzhead]

Count me as one who loves the warmer weather.   I just renewed my driver's license and the DMV girl complemented me on my tan! 

[Free Vulcan]

Unless this is satellite data, I don't trust it. They use weather stations to measure temperature.

Problem is too many are in heat islands, and to much of the world has none, so they must be guessed at and 'adjusted'.

Most of this 'warmth' is nothing but agenda driven confirmation bias.

[Fishrrman]

Ghost said:
"I don't believe them.  Sorry.  It's all a crock of global warming BS."

I'm with you.
I simply don't believe them either.
October was on the cool side here.

[DB]

Warmest "ever" going all the way back to 1981? LOL...

Notice most of these claims start with temperatures in the late 70's or early 80's...

How convenient...

Then the temperatures were unusually cool in the 70's, so much so they thought it was the beginning of another glacial period...

Take the coolest period and call it the baseline...

[PeteS in CA]

Really? CBS Skews can produce temperature records from 2000 BC? Wouldn't that be part of "ever"? I'll make it easier, can CBS Skews produce temperature records from 100 AD? Still can't? Maybe 1000 AD ...... No? Maybe 1700 AD ... still no? ......... OK, thermometers of reasonable linearity with some sort of scale hadn't been invented yet. CBS Skews' "ever" sure shrank a lot. In reality, many countries and cities in the world didn't keep weather station quality records until the 19th or 20th Centuries, if ever. For example, CBS Skews cannot cite 1835 weather records from the capital of California, Sacramento, because there was no city or settlement there until several years later.

So "hottest ever" is absurd, and even "hottest on record" should be footnoted with information about how extremely limited in time and locations those records are.