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Earth Hit Record Hot Year in 2016: NASA (news.com.au)

Posted by msmash on from the tussle-continues dept.

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.

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  1. Re:At this rate... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You're vastly understating the timeline here.

    We're actually going to be 20C warmer in six months, in contrast to the UN disastrous projection of 2C... someday.

    This civilization-ending temperature rise is already gaining widespread awareness, even though some are trying to keep it from the public with an insidious codename...

    It's called "Summer".

  2. Re:No one ever says that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I can believe that the climate is warming slightly.
    I can believe that humans have something to do with it.
    What I don't believe is that anyone has shown that there will be any harm in it.
    Are you so stupid as to build a house less than a foot above high tide sea level? Too fucking bad if you lose it.
    No one has shown that an increased average temperature will be bad for anything that has a direct bearing on civilization.
    Will we still be able to grow food? Yes.
    Will we still have drinkable water? Yes.
    Will people be able to live in all the same place as they have for the last 1000 years? For the most part.
    Will people be able to live in places currently uninhabitable? In some places.

    I don't want pollutants in the environment. I like to breathe and see distant vistas like everybody else.
    CO2 is plant food. It is not a pollutant.