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Earth on Pace For Fourth-Warmest Year on Record, NOAA and NASA Say (weather.com)
The first nine months of 2018 was the fourth-warmest such period on Earth since record-keeping began in 1880, NOAA and NASA said in their analyses this week. From a report: 2016 had the warmest January-September period, according to NOAA, followed by 2017, then 2015. NASA's analysis agreed the Earth was on pace for its fourth-warmest year. NASA climate modeler Gavin Schmidt said in a tweet that 2018 was "almost guaranteed" to be the fourth-warmest year in its period of record. Record or near-record warmth in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America helped propel the January-September 2018 period to the fourth-warmest on record, NOAA said.
With temperatures 3.35 degrees Fahrenheit (1.86 degrees Celsius) above average, Europe had its record-warmest first nine months of the year, exceeding the previous record set in 2014 by more than 0.23 degrees Fahrenheit (0.13 degrees Celsius). Records in the continent date to 1910. Breaking it down a bit further, Africa had its fifth-warmest year-to-date temperature on record, Asia its sixth-warmest and South America its eighth-warmest, according to NOAA. North America experienced its lowest January-September temperature departure from average since 2013. The only notable pocket of cooler-than-average temperatures in 2018's first nine months was over the far North Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland.
With temperatures 3.35 degrees Fahrenheit (1.86 degrees Celsius) above average, Europe had its record-warmest first nine months of the year, exceeding the previous record set in 2014 by more than 0.23 degrees Fahrenheit (0.13 degrees Celsius). Records in the continent date to 1910. Breaking it down a bit further, Africa had its fifth-warmest year-to-date temperature on record, Asia its sixth-warmest and South America its eighth-warmest, according to NOAA. North America experienced its lowest January-September temperature departure from average since 2013. The only notable pocket of cooler-than-average temperatures in 2018's first nine months was over the far North Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland.
Which country is that? There are a lot of countries in the EU and their emissions have been going up: https://www.reuters.com/articl...
Are you suggesting they sue the EU?
Figure out an engineered solution.
Nuclear power. It doesn't have to be anything fancy because nuclear power as we build it today is very low CO2, very safe, plentiful to the point of being nearly infinite, and inexpensive.
Let's make a few things clear on nuclear power being defined as "safe". Chernobyl was a first generation design, it didn't have even the most basic of safety mechanisms of a containment dome that are nearly the defining feature of second generation reactors. Fukushima was a second generation reactor, while it had a containment dome the safety of the reactor was dependent on an external source of power. Third generation has passive safety, meaning it uses the most basic of physics to render it safe. Things like gravity causes things to fall, heat causes things to expand, and bodies in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside force.
Mentioning safety failures of prior reactor designs to make decisions on future designs is like deciding to buy a 2018 model year Ford F-250 based on the performance of the 1918 Ford Model T.
We have an engineered solution for global warming. What we need are politicians with a sufficient understanding of the science to get out of the way of nuclear power to solve the problem. The only problems with nuclear power today are political. Elections are coming up, vote for politicians that take global warming seriously enough to allow nuclear power plants to be built in large numbers.
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