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Earth Hit Record Hot Year in 2016: NASA (news.com.au)
Earth sizzled to a third-straight record hot year in 2016, government scientists have said. They mostly blame man-made global warming with help from a natural El Nino, which has since disappeared. From a report: Measuring global temperatures in slightly different ways, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that last year passed 2015 as the hottest year on record. NOAA calculated that the average 2016 global temperature was 14.84 degrees Celsius (58.69 degrees Fahrenheit) -- beating the previous year by 0.04 Celsius (0.07 degrees F). NASA's figures, which include more of the Arctic, are higher at 0.22 degrees (0.12 Celsius) warmer than 2015. The Arctic "was enormously warm, like totally off the charts compared to everything else," said Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies in New York, where the space agency monitors global temperatures. Records go back to 1880. This is the fifth time in a dozen years that the globe has set a new annual heat record. Records have been set in 2016, 2015, 2014, 2010 and 2005.
The root cause may be all the hot air spewing from Trump's facial orifice.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
CNN is fake news, you imbecile. Too bad that's the only stupid shit you are allowed to listen to.
Unless you are a climate scientist yourself and post your name, institution and the papers YOU published on the topic, you are nothing but some bored dork in a server room or a developer counting your days until your job is off-shored to India or replaced by a H1-b - Trump isn't gonna do jack shit.
You are no better than the anti-vaxers who think they know better than the physicians, virologists and epidemiologists.
Whatever, while you go home and sit your fat ass in front of the TV or video game console, I'm doing something about it - politically. I'm gonna just steam roll over your fat ass.