Northeast Sees Hottest Year on Record

Central Mass: has not watered lawn - only a few tan areas.

This is just the beginning of a cycle of extreme conditions, people should quickly prepare for their families for troubled times. So without going into details and and drawing trolls, every family in America should build up their food and water supplies as well as emergency items. The Earth herself is warning us of more hardship to come.

Here we go again, look at the numbers (arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/)
This site has over thirty years of data and graphic representations that a child can understand.

People will argue over climate change while rivers dry up and crops die and food supply is threatened wake the #$%$ up people and lets focus on fixing or adapting to the problem that is happening

I live in PA. Yeah it was hot but I dont remember much rain and neither does my burnt lawn. So I guess it's only where they measure totals was there an excess of rainfall.

And this is pretty much how it is going to be for the next hundred years or more, with each year being worse than the last....

Did we have weather satellite records before 1980? It was 105 F in Southern NH in 1911 and it was over 100 F for one week- one year before the peak sunspot activity in 1912. Most don't enough sleep today less than 7 hours- so we are easily (brainwashed influenced) and what we saw in the paper and read when we were children is forgotten. We did not have satellite records then so we don't know how much the ice cap and glaciers was melting in Greenland but more ice melted than expected since 1912 was the year that the Titanic hit an iceberg. They didn't have satellite records back then. Now move the sunspot activity two cycles that puts it in the 1930's at the time of the dust bole started. So give it 4 or 5 years from today and you may need to tune up your snow blower. I am not denying global warming but it seems that the weather and stock market cycles are wired to the amydgule and the associated neurology related to over-correction resulting in costly re-correction. So we need much more research when it comes to the Stock Market, Global Warming and the amydgule and the associated neurons.

Can't think of anywhere that deserves it more.

Let's hope the warm spell lasts through the 2012 -2013 winter. Possible the growing season will be extended and physically move Northward into Canada.

everything is ok. The republican party says there's no such thing as global warming. And they WOULD NEVER lie to the people.

Do not ask for whom the climate warms. It warms for thee.

Interesting how they start the record after the year without a summer. And they are surprised it has been warming since then.
BTW, according to NASA there has been an increase in solar radiation since the Little Ice Age.

On a serious note...........
The people in the northeast have not had to deal with this type of heat. As a result, not all homes have air conditioning. They have also not had to deal with the type of water issues the mid and south west deal with. Hope this is not a long term trend as many believe. If it is, many will have a tough time adjusting to brown lawns and schrubs.

Climatologist -- A pseudo-scientist who previously failed in Chemisty, Physics, or applied Earth science, found their niche in a discipline that is subjugated to an oversimplified dogma that ignores contrary evidence, and even omits or entirely fabricates data to support their wildly imaginative predictions of future weather.

these are the birthpains... and just as labor starts slowly so does this... and the rest comes very quickly until it's over

The Evergreen trees that used to easily survive summer in northern states of U.S. now at least in Michigan current record breaking hot summer has killed 60% to 70% of them i.e, 6 to 7 trees out of ten are standing dead. I actually planning of buying banana and mango trees that never survived the Michigan winter. Michigan residents had barely two snow removal from their driveway last winter. Many bird species in colder states will change too, probably die or migrate to northern areas. We must start planning for water waste and recycle. Residents of the water front properties have docks & boats sitting on dry ground due decrease in water level and reduced access points to receded water. Many swamps have totally dried out. The grass is so dead that even occasional rain is now unable to revive it.

there is a lot more data to be found, world wide, ships logs from the 1600s onwards, ice core drilling, tree rings etc... all in all... these last two decades we should have had colder years... but instead we got the opposite... and it shows that since the start of the industrial revolution... temperatures started to deviate... but all that is way, way too complicated to the fox "news" cattle in the US... so never mind... we will wait till we flood.. and then blame China, or some other foreign country, maybe France, always a favorite?

Science established global warming trends in the late 80's and 90's. Global climate change is a reality. Where the debate continues is in what is causing this climate change. Some scientist believe the change is being facilitated by human activity. Too many CFCs, polution, and human encroachment on natural habitat. Others believe this clilmate change is due to the fact that the sun itself is getting hotter, and since scientist have monitored temperature rises on other planets I would have to say it is probably the latter of the two, although it could be a combination of the two. However, these things will not be taken into account by unreasonable people who will use this story as a jumping off point to express their personal and political opinions much to the delight or chagrin of others.

glad i read these comments didn't know there were sooooooo many prophets so willing to enlighten us simple folks of the facts of weather wait the sky is falling nope sorry just an accorn

Climate change is a lie...
....right?