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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.

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  1. Can we execute the Climate Deniers in Sweden then? by CajunArson · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sweden must be full of racist, misogynist DENIERS because they racistly claimed that snow still exists in the world of APOCALYPTIC GLOBAL WARMING and even abandoned their non-patriarchal non-removal of non-existent snow policy: http://dailycaller.com/2016/11...

    DAMMIT TRUMP!

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  2. Re:Can we execute the Climate Deniers in Sweden th by Archangel+Michael · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Leprosy. I think you have Leprosy.

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  3. Re:How to prevent it? Raise taxes! by blindseer · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Raising taxes makes it get colder out.

    I wish I could mod you up. Instead I'll just quote you and point it out as insightful.

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  4. Re:Deniers by pipingguy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "99.9% of the scientific community and all indicators point that way"

    100% of scientists worried about CAGW are government-funded. No crisis = no jobs, so, not surprisingly, there's a crisis. All the time. To be "fixed" with taxpayer money. And taxpayer money is the best kind of money.