Global Temperature Set To Reach 1 Degree C Over Pre-Industrial Levels (metoffice.gov.uk)

Layzej writes: Based on data from January to September, the HadCRUT dataset shows 2015 global mean temperature at 1.02 degrees C (±0.11 degrees C) above pre-industrial levels for the first time. The Copenhagen Accord recognizes "the scientific view that the increase in global temperature should be below 2 degrees Celsius (PDF)." Physicist Ken Rice points out that the next degree Celsius may be closer than we think. "It's taken us about 160 years to warm by about 1 degree C. This is associated with emissions of about 550GtC (550 billion tonnes of carbon, or ~2000 billion tonnes of CO2). Current emissions are around 10GtC/year. If we continue emitting as we are, we will double our cumulative emissions in about 50 years. If we continue to increase our emissions, it will be even sooner.

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Gassholes

[Anonymous Coward]

This is because of all you gas-guzzler driving pukes out there with your fucking lifted trucks and humvees and generators powering your cabins in the woods.
You know who climate changes hurts most? The marginalized, women and minorities.
*YOU DON'T NEED A CAR!* Get that through your thick skulls.

Re:And what if we were just colder 160 years ago

[_Sharp'r_]

Well, it's a good thing that Antarctic Sea Ice just reached the highest level ever seen, according to NASA.:

“There hasn’t been one explanation yet that I’d say has become a consensus, where people say, ‘We’ve nailed it, this is why it’s happening,’” Parkinson said. “Our models are improving, but they’re far from perfect. One by one, scientists are figuring out that particular variables are more important than we thought years ago, and one by one those variables are getting incorporated into the models.”

Don't try telling me about the Arctic, either. We wouldn't want to be skeptical of the scientists, right?

And don't get me started on Solar cycles...

Re:Who measured in pre-industrial times?

[Anonymous Coward]

Scientists? Which Scientists? What equipment did they use. Where is their raw data collected from pre-industrial times?

Answer: there isn't any. You are lying. The claim isn't being made through measurements from the pre-industrial age. It is arrived at by MODELING. More misleading crap.

Re:Who measured in pre-industrial times?

[ScentCone]

Scientists.

The same ones who, in pre-industrial society, were also quite sure that they could measure someone's criminality by feeling the lumps on their skulls? Those sorts of pre-industrial scientists?

Thus proving warming alarmism is a lie

[SuperKendall]

how much CO2 and other 'greenhouse gasses' humans are actually responsible for.

Don't forget China, between lying about car emissions and China lying about coal emissions, a HUGE volume of CO2 has been put into the atmosphere.

Which proves that CO2 does not cause warming, because warming has been DECREASING over the decades CO2 has been pouring into the atmosphere.

This proves simply that CO2 is not a direct driver of warming as is required for any of the warming models to be accurate in a rise of even 2C. What we are left with then is natural climactic warming, unrelated to atmospheric CO2 - which is what we'd have supposed all along if the global record of CO2 and temperature had been paid attention to to start with.

You want to get rid of pollution? So do I. But CO2 is NOT POLLUTION and by focusing on that and ignoring actual pollution you are fucking over the environment on a scale unimaginable. For that environmental crime I will never forgive nor forget the harm you warming alarmists have caused to the Earth, never again will you and your doom cult be trusted.

Re:And what if we were just colder 160 years ago

[danbert8]

No, the end goal is climate constant regardless of the cost. YOU ARE A DENIER!