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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 Niño climatic event. Last year is currently the warmest year on record, itself beating a landmark set in 2014.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @10:55PM
> In fact, the only times I've ever seen this NOT be the case is in faith based extremists
In fact, all of us rely on faith because none of us can be experts in even just 1% of the things we encounter in life.
The question that matters is: "Who do you put your faith in?"
I choose to put my faith in the people who are scientific experts in the field. Not religionists. And definitely not those with a multi-billion dollar interest in convincing me otherwise. I accept that the people I do put my faith in are imperfect humans and for the most part they acknowledge their imperfection every time they speak on the subject. I accept that there are uncertainties about the exact geography of their knowledge. But I have yet to see any hard evidence even remotely sufficient to convince me that I should doubt that faith.