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2017 Among Warmest Years On Record (npr.org)
2017 was among the warmest years on record, according to new data released by NASA and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. From a report: The planet's global surface temperature last year was second warmest since 1880, NASA says. NOAA calls it the third warmest year on record, due to slight variation in the ways that they analyze temperatures. Both put 2017 behind 2016's record temperatures. And "both analyses show that the five warmest years on record have all taken place since 2010," NASA said in a press release. The trend is seen most dramatically in the Arctic, NASA says, as sea ice continues to melt.
Climate change is real and nuclear power is the only option we have to mitigate it. There is no viable path forward that does not include the expansion of new nuclear reactors. So stop opposing the development of 4th generation reactors you fossil fuel lackeys.
No data, not statistics, nothing. A simple claim with a single measurement (2.36 deg F). What is the tolerance of that measurement? Is it accurate within 0.01 deg F? There's nothing at the source link to give any data - or even a link to data. This is just a PR release. I guess that passes for "science" these days...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Uh, did you miss the story on Slashdot a week or two ago where some shitlord (in TFA) literally declared that "scientists" are now allowed to blame individual incidencts such as a hurricane, a hot day, etc. on climate change?
Global warming nutjobs like yourself constantly commit the flagrant foul of declaring any and all data points in your favor.
Hot day? GLOBAL WARMING!
Normal day? Weather is not climate!! GET EDUCATED!!!
Cold day? SEE! Global warming makes things more extreme!
No major hurricanes since Katrina? Weather is not climate!!`1!
Finally, a hurricane? OMG! This hurricane hit New York City, our sacred fucking cow!! But it wasn't a hurricane when it did, so let's have the media trump it up as SUPERSTORM SANDY!!
Finally, a normal hurricane season? OMG! GLOBAL WARMING IS MAKING MORE HURRICANES AND MAKING THEM MORE EXTREME! SEE?!?! This weather IS climate!!!
Data doesn't match the narrative? Adjust it! Correct it! Assault anyone who questions our methods or exposes our bullshit! THEY'RE ALL RACIST SEXIST REDNECKS!
Fuck off.
Keep crap articles like this off this site. Go moderate Mother Jones.
Oh, yay! Another CC story, which means we're all treated to the Dunning-Kruger Effect all-stars on this site with their blistering hot takes on why there's so much doubt about the fundamental points of CC (it's real, it's caused by humans, it's here now, and it's a hell of a big problem).
Dear morons: Get a clue, and understand the following points:
1. Our understanding of the basic mechanism of CC, the greenhouse effect, goes back well over a century, e.g. Google Svante Arrhenius and see his work from the 1890s.
2. Climate scientists are not in this for the money or the journal publications or tenure or whatever. They don't want this to be true. They have families just like the rest of us, and almost every one of them is freaking out. They would be deliriously happy for someone to actually prove that CC is not a threat or could be cheaply and easily fixed.
3. Because of how much CO2 we've already put into the atmosphere and the oceans, how long it stays there, and how much we're still pumping out, there is no reasonable expectation at all that we'll escape horrific, off-the-charts expensive impacts from sea level rise. It is literally too late to save many large coastal cities around the world, barring some miraculous technology that allows us to suck many billions of tons of CO2 out of the biosphere and permanently sequester it. And that sea level rise will create many millions of refugees and untold international conflicts. One example: Bangladesh has about half the population of the US in an area the size of Iowa, most of it being very low-lying coastal area. If you think South Asia is "interesting" now, wait until 10 or 20 or 50 million people are displaced from that country with nowhere to go.
I apologize for the nasty tone of this post. I've been fighting this battle for nearly 15 years, and I've long ago run out of patience with the armchair experts who think they know more than nearly 100% of the world's experts in a highly technical field.