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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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Nothing that can be done now, regardless if you're a supporter or denier. Absolutely nothing.
As a disabled black lesbian pagan vegan, I think you're just triggered me.
You should apply to Harvard with that impressive resume. You'll go right to the front of the line.
With Trump elected, the Paris agreement is pretty much dead. Thanks to all climate deniers who voted republican.
post 2011 NASA contaminates the satellite data, the raw radiosonde data shows no increased warming since 2000. That is when the truth of 1998 being the hottest year on record was changed.
Just look at these quotes from the article:
> "The El Niño 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."
(Oh of course)
> "“As the El Niño wanes, we don’t anticipate that 2017 will be another record-breaking year,” said Dr Peter Stott at the UK’s Met Office. “But 2017 is likely to be warmer than any year prior to the last two decades"
Got that? Take away El Niño and we're the hottest in... omg .... 20 years.
On a geologic scale of millions, we're now down to forming conclusions based on a data set of ... 20.
Please send these children back to their safe spaces where they can play with Play Doh and coloring books...
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Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Seriously. Did you read the article?
This article says that it's the hottest in 20 years.
Do you understand how patently *meaningless* that is?
We're in the middle of El Niño right now. Take that away and it's the hottest in 20 years. That's it. TWENTY.
That is nothing. It's not *remotely* relevant data for any legitimate form of long term climate analysis. It's a tiny movement over a fraction of a nanosecond of geologic time.
This is fear mongering and weak science.
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We have recently begun to realize just how 'accurate' these models are up here in the Pacific Northwest.
The storm of the century was promised from the remnants of Super Typhoon and there was squat.
http://www.seattletimes.com/se...
If they can't even predict weather 10 days in advance, they have zero credible chances of predicting it 10 years in advance.
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
It all depends on how you wish to treat the average and which values you count & discount.
2005: "OMG! We had a above average year of hurricanes which is the direct result of global warming, a pattern we are going to see for years to come unless we do something about this immediately!"
2006: "True, we had a below average year of hurricanes, we just got lucky."
2007: "... lucky..."
2008: "... lucky..."
2009: "... lucky..."
2010: "... lucky..."
2011: "... lucky..."
2012: "... lucky..."
2013: "... lucky..."
2014: "... lucky..."
2015: "... lucky..."
2016: "See! It's global warming!"