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posted by martyb on Friday September 02 2016, @07:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the looking-for-the-thermostat dept.

From The Guardian :

The planet is warming at a pace not experienced within the past 1,000 years, at least, making it "very unlikely" that the world will stay within a crucial temperature limit agreed by nations just last year, according to Nasa's top climate scientist.

[...] But Nasa said that records of temperature that go back far further, taken via analysis of ice cores and sediments, suggest that the warming of recent decades is out of step with any period over the past millennium.

[...] [Director of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies Gavin] Schmidt repeated his previous prediction that there is a 99% chance that 2016 will be the warmest year on record, with around 20% of the heat attributed to a strong El NiƱo climatic event. Last year is currently the warmest year on record, itself beating a landmark set in 2014.


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Friday September 02 2016, @08:46PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Friday September 02 2016, @08:46PM (#396776)

    The Chinese are accelerating the change courtesy of their coal plants, just so that everyone feels compelled to buy the solar panels that they're the leading manufacturer of.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Snow on Friday September 02 2016, @08:58PM

    by Snow (1601) on Friday September 02 2016, @08:58PM (#396780) Journal

    It's easy to blame the Chinese, but they are actually doing more to help than most other countries. They actually fund and build nuclear power plants. They are investing in energy research.

    Mark my words, in 20 years, we will be buying our power plants from the Chinese, where 20 years ago, they bought their power plants from us.

    Meanwhile the West has been pouring money into how we can get poor quality oil out of the ground (oil sands + hydro fracking).

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @10:58PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @10:58PM (#396805)

      Mark my words, in 20 years, we will be buying our power plants from the Chinese, where 20 years ago, they bought their power plants from us.

      You're ahead of yourself! We're (the USA) slowly building solar (PV) systems and even if the solar panels are assembled here, guess where the silicon wafers (and the rest of the hardware) are made?

      My hope is that at least 50% of electricity comes from solar in the near future. We could do it if we would put our efforts and priority on it. Let's look at the total $ spent on entertainment, fashion, etc. Could we please put just 10% into solar? I'm sure someone here has numbers.