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2018 Was Earth's Fourth-Hottest Year on Record: NOAA and NASA Report (cnbc.com)

Posted by msmash on from the for-the-record dept.

The string of hotter-than-average annual temperatures continued in 2018, as Earth experienced its fourth-hottest year on record, according to NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [PDF]. From a report: Also in 2018, the United States suffered 14 weather and climate disasters with costs surpassing $1 billion during a warmer- and wetter-than-average year, NOAA reports. Global temperatures across land and sea were 1.42 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average, making 2018 the fourth-warmest year since record-keeping began in 1880, NOAA said in a report Thursday. In a separate report, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies said global temperatures were 1.5 degrees above the 1951 to 1980 mean, also the fourth highest going back to 1880.

The 2-degrees Fahrenheit increase in global temperatures since the late 19th century has been driven largely by growing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from human activity, said the institute's director, Gavin Schmidt. The conclusion reaffirms NASA's long-established finding that man-made emissions are driving climate change, which President Donald Trump and some senior administration officials frequently challenge. By both agencies' measures, Earth has now recorded its five hottest annual average temperatures in the past five years. "2018 is yet again an extremely warm year on top of a long-term global warming trend," Schmidt said in a press release.

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  1. B..b..but... by PPH · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...weather isn't the same as climate. At least that's what all the AGW zealots say when we have a cold snap.

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    Have gnu, will travel.
    1. Re:B..b..but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      Have you even begun to think about and question the integrity of the raw temperature data?

      Remember "Proven Consensus Science" has been overturned more often than not throughout history. There are many credible issues with the temperature data sets that ALL climate research is based on. Garbage in garbage out. You morons act like it is settled FACT that there is a real upward temp trend and the only question is fitting some line to it and associating it with human activity.

      The data is systemically compromised and plenty of PHDs have shown how. But no one cares because, if fixed, researchers don't get the results that are desired and they lose their cushy $200k/yr jobs "studying" climate change. Like we need another asshat looking at the EXACT SAME DATA SET and DRAWING THE EXACT SAME CONCLUSIONS.

      What is the easiest way to get 1,000's of people ("scientists") to agree on something. Give them the exact same data and let them crank away on it and "come to the conclusions themselves".

      Its like showing a video of a murder. Of course most everyone viewing the video will agree who the killer was. But maybe we should be questioning the validity of the video in the first place rather than debating who the killer was.

  2. Misused words by chrism238 · · Score: 0, Troll

    NASA does not have a long-standing finding that Mankind is driving climate change; they have a long-standing belief, and have made statements, but still no scientific proof.
    And here's another article that just parrots this misuse of words.

    1. Re:Misused words by Miles_O'Toole · · Score: 1, Troll

      No point in trying to persuade people in denial about Global Warming of anything. They're shills, morons or trolls, and not open to persuasion by logic and science.

      So really, the best strategy is to ridicule and insult them, the same way you'd ridicule and insult a child molester trying to argue from the anonymous safety of their parents' basement that raping children isn't really all that bad.

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      Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
  3. Make up your mind science. by Charcharodon · · Score: 1, Troll
    There is a graph of the global temperatures in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. It was an regular up and down wandering average over millions of years . The "global warming" portion of the graph was just a small portion of the same graph that was zoomed in on modern times. Basically they are trying to tell us all this "warming/climate change" is significant even though it is basically just noise.

    The best part...the trend line shows the temperature going down not up. Of course this display was back when they were telling us were still in an ice age and all going to die and they needed more money to study the phenomena.

    Basically I'm sure we could chart all the dangerous threats from weather/climate and discover a correlation with the funding levels in the scientific community.
    Funding going down......"OH NO WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE FROM.......please insert crisis here [cold/heat/flooding/bees dying/asteroids/starvation/radiation]"
    Funding going up ....... "Ok just keep it at these levels until I can retire.....er I mean find a solution to the crisis"

    Basically I've got my bases covered I live far enough south another ice age will at most just force me to start wearing pants on a regular basis, and I'm far enough from the ocean to enjoy a boost in my property values if the oceans were to rise from global warming. I've got plenty guns for dealing with all the starving looters that either crisis will generate.