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2016 Will Be the Hottest Year On Record, UN Says (theguardian.com)
2016 will very likely be the hottest year on record and a new high for the third year in a row, according to the UN. It means 16 of the 17 hottest years on record will have been this century. From an article on The Guardian:The scorching temperatures around the world, and the extreme weather they drive, mean the impacts of climate change on people are coming sooner and with more ferocity than expected, according to scientists. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report, published on Monday at the global climate summit in Morocco, found the global temperature in 2016 is running 1.2C above pre-industrial levels. This is perilously close to to the 1.5C target included as an aim of the Paris climate agreement last December. The El Nino weather phenomenon helped push temperatures even higher in early 2016 but the global warming caused by the greenhouse gas emissions from human activities remains the strongest factor.
Raising taxes makes it get colder out.
It's 1, in the Trump Revolutionary Calendar. It's the 15th of Trumptember.
Meanwhile tornadoes, hurricanes, and other extreme weather events are at record lows! Exactly the opposite of what Al Gore predicted!
Tails...
Slashdot used to be a site once where actual nerds/geeks/science majors used to comment on science and technology news. You could learn a lot from their opinions and insights, whether they agreed with your viewpoint or not. Now every time someone posts a Global Warming related story on Slashdot, a 4 story building worth of paid-per-post pro-AGW Trolls, each likely operating 20 - 50 sock puppet accounts, seem to post crap that Global Warming "is happening" or "definitely caused by human activity". The mere fact that this happens on a once "free" discussion site like Slashdot leads me to believe that a) Global Warming must be nothing to worry about and b) the anti-Energy Industry is very concerned about their loss of power arising from this. By this I mean that when AGW doesn't cause early deaths, natural disasters, major economic and environmental damage, contagious disease outbreaks and similar trouble in different parts of the world, the fear mongers want to be able to pretend that "somebody is liable for this because AGW simply must exist". For this you obviously need a few hundred million dollars worth of Internet Trolls who flood sites like Slashdot with "IT IS US. IT IS US. IT IS US..." Sad. Very, very sad.
I personally don't really understand
You could have just stopped typing there.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
What if the people posting about paid trolls are actually the paid trolls?