Guest Post by Bob Tisdale

Many of the visitors here at ClimateObservations and at WattsUpWithThat also spend time arguing with climate alarmists at other websites around the blogosphere. With global sea surface temperatures at record high levels in 2014, the true-blue believers in the hypothesis of human-induced global warming are out in force. This post will present data and other information to counter their claims.

INTRODUCTION

We first discussed the possibility of record high sea surface temperatures back in the June sea surface temperature update. Since then, we discussed the basic reasons for the warm global sea surfaces in many posts and, more recently, confirmed that sea surface temperatures in 2014 will likely be higher than the previous high in 1998. Examples:

• On The Recent Record-High Global Sea Surface Temperatures – The Wheres and Whys
• California Drought – A Novel Statistical Analysis of Unrealistic Climate Models and of a…