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.

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How to prevent it? Raise taxes!

[Anonymous Coward]

Raising taxes makes it get colder out.

2016, old calendar

[Anonymous Coward]

It's 1, in the Trump Revolutionary Calendar. It's the 15th of Trumptember.

Re:2016, old calendar

[phantomfive]

Oh, wake me up, when Trumptember ends!

Re:Is this from The Onion?

[amicusNYCL]

I personally don't really understand

You could have just stopped typing there.