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The Last Three Months Were the Hottest Quarter On Record
New submitter NatasRevol (731260) writes The last three months were collectively the warmest ever experienced since record-keeping began in the late 1800s. From the article: "Taken as a whole, the just-finished three-month period was about 0.68 degrees Celsius (1.22 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 20th-century average. That may not sound like much, but the added warmth has been enough to provide a nudge to a litany of weather and climate events worldwide. Arctic sea ice is trending near record lows for this time of year, abnormally warm ocean water helped spawn the earliest hurricane ever recorded to make landfall in North Carolina, and a rash of heat waves have plagued cities from India to California to the Middle East." Also, it puts to bed the supposed 'fact' that there's been a pause in temperature increase the last 17 years. Raw data shows it's still increasing.
bizwriter also wrote in with some climate related news: A new report from libertarian think tank Heartland Institute claims that new government data debunks the concept of global climate change. However, an examination of the full data and some critical consideration shows that the organization, whether unintentionally or deliberately, has inaccurately characterized and misrepresented the information and what it shows.
The Heartland Institute skews the data by taking two points and ignoring all of the data in between, kind of like grabbing two zero points from sin(x) and claiming you're looking at a steady state function.
lololololololol, were you expecting anything else?
You mean because global warming is real, we have no choice but to give far-left radicals everything they've been asking for for the past century? Wow, that's convenient. And it's mandatory, you say, or the earth dies? Ouchie!
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
In stead, they are tainted (nay, funded) by the widespread corporate anti-science that big business inflict on the planet.
Are you trying to imply that corporations, such as the cap-and-trade corporations Al Gore is associated with, are NOT big business? That universities are not big business? That EPA is not big business?
I'm just wondering about your logic here.
Further, by now there has been plenty of "anti-science" demonstrated on BOTH sides. It isn't very credible to single one side out without at least mentioning the failures of the other.