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posted by on Saturday January 21 2017, @05:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the frying-an-egg-on-the-sidewalk dept.

2016 was the warmest year since humans began keeping records, by a wide margin. Global average temperatures were extremely hot in the first few months of the year, pushed up by a large El NiƱo event. Global surface temperatures dropped in the second half of 2016, yet still show a continuation of global warming.

This is the third record-breaking year in a row.

Berkeley Earth's work has been published in Science Advances (DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1601207) (DX)

Also at NASA (Javascript required) and the Washington Post.


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  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday January 21 2017, @06:17AM

    by butthurt (6141) on Saturday January 21 2017, @06:17AM (#456877) Journal

    Rule One: Climatologists Always Lie.
    Rule Two: Climatologists Always Double Down.
    Rule Three: Climatologists Always Project.

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by jmorris on Saturday January 21 2017, @06:29AM

    by jmorris (4844) on Saturday January 21 2017, @06:29AM (#456882)

    To a great extent yes. Because most of them are also SJWs, pushing the same causes and share membership in the SJW political organizations. Is it just iron Party discipline or a root mental defect that causes an almost uniformly warped set of beliefs on the Left along with militant intolerance for any dissent? Who knows, who cares. But it is a certainty that if you spot one pathological position you usually get the whole set. Religious warmist? Almost certain to also support income redistribution, LGBTQ rights, feminism, critical race theory, exhibit religious bigotry toward Christianity (but never Islam), etc. Spot an animal rights activist? Also very likely a Warmist, LGBTQ supporter, etc.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @07:04AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @07:04AM (#456887)

      Its very fortunate that all your enemies are the same people.

      Have you considered the possibility that its not people but a single person?!

      SJWs, Climate Scientists, Commies, Queers, Feminists, Egalitarians of all stripes

      In reality they are all one person. Just constantly hounding you from behind multiple nyms.

      Sometimes she doesn't even bother to create a nym and just posts as an anonymous coward!

      It makes total sense. All of your enemies are mental defectives. So its totally natural that she would also have MPD.

      • (Score: 4, Funny) by aristarchus on Saturday January 21 2017, @08:26AM

        by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday January 21 2017, @08:26AM (#456911) Journal

        Have you considered the possibility that its not people but a single person?!

        SJWs, Climate Scientists, Commies, Queers, Feminists, Egalitarians of all stripes

        In reality they are all one person.

        That would be me. I am jmorris's SJW. I am the one who knocks jmorris.

                I have been assigned by SJW Headquarters to keep an eye on jmorris. We have Chinese operatives who for like $50 have collected everything there is to be known about jmorris. Curiously, jmorris seems to be located in Russia.

        • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday January 22 2017, @12:30AM

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday January 22 2017, @12:30AM (#457180) Journal

          They don't pay you enough for this shit.

          --
          I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
          • (Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Sunday January 22 2017, @03:38AM

            by aristarchus (2645) on Sunday January 22 2017, @03:38AM (#457243) Journal

            We in the SJW Corps think of it more as public service, for the greater good and Social Justice. It is really the least anyone can do, as a member of the human species.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @01:52PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @01:52PM (#456963)

        Its very fortunate that all your enemies are the same people.

        Have you considered the possibility that its not people but a single person?!

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe [wikipedia.org]

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by butthurt on Saturday January 21 2017, @07:22AM

      by butthurt (6141) on Saturday January 21 2017, @07:22AM (#456897) Journal

      Is it just iron Party discipline or a root mental defect that causes an almost uniformly warped set of beliefs on the Left along with militant intolerance for any dissent?

      The meteorological agencies of the UK, Japan, and the USA are in agreement, and your response is to dismiss their findings as part of a vast, leftist conspiracy. Well, I dismiss your response, not because belief in vast conspiracies is symptomatic of a "mental defect" but because you've offered no evidence of such a conspiracy happening. It's also implausible, because the governments of those countries aren't particularly leftist: the UK is ruled by the Conservative Party; the prime minister of Japan says he is "emotionally attached to 'conservatism'" and has visited a shrine to fascist-era war criminals; the USA just rid itself of a president who favoured "clean coal."

      http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/26/national/formed-in-childhood-roots-of-abes-conservatism-go-deep [japantimes.co.jp]

      But it is a certainty that if you spot one pathological position you usually get the whole set.

      That cuts both ways.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @07:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @07:15AM (#456893)

    > Rule Three: Climatologists Always Project.

    This is actually true, when you doubt them they say you must be paid by some fossil fuel lobby, as if there were no lobby in alternative energy sources (especially since they can't exist without subsidies), and as if it didn't benefit heavily to politicians.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by butthurt on Saturday January 21 2017, @07:43AM

      by butthurt (6141) on Saturday January 21 2017, @07:43AM (#456901) Journal

      > This is actually true, when you doubt them they say you must be paid by some fossil fuel lobby [...]

      On what occasion, specifically, has that happened? Please quote an actual climatologist.

      > [...] alternative energy sources [...] can't exist without subsidies [...]

      Someone has written in Wikipedia:

      Global fossil fuel subsidies represented 6.5% of global GDP in 2015.

      -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies [wikipedia.org]

      with a citation to:

      https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X16304867 [sciencedirect.com]

      I can't conveniently check it, but I invite you and other readers to do so.

      The Wikipedia article also has 2013 figures for the United States, saying that 20% of U.S. federal subsidies went toward fossil fuels and 45% to renewable energy.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies#Allocation_of_subsidies_in_the_United_States [wikipedia.org]

      It's very plausible that the situation you allude to, in which alternative energy receives no subsidies but (I'm assuming) the subsidies for fossil fuels--a more established industry--continue, would mean financial difficulty for the alternative energy industry.

      Am I reading too much into your post if I assume that you would advocate creating that situation, because you believe that global warming is a hoax ("created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive"?). If that's your feeling, I wonder what makes you confident in that belief, because the stakes are quite high. Even if global warming is indeed a hoax, ought we not conserve oil, gas, peat and coal for better uses than merely burning them?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @08:33AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @08:33AM (#456912)

      > Rule Three: Climatologists Always Project.

      This is actually true, when you doubt them they say you must be paid by some fossil fuel lobby, as if there were no lobby in alternative energy sources (especially since they can't exist without subsidies), and as if it didn't benefit heavily to politicians.

      Obliviously, you must be a paid shill for the Big Oil! What are you still doing here? Did you not get a cabinet position in DC? Oh, you didn't? Sorry, I am sure it is just an oversight. You have been doing such a great job for the Corporation here on SoylentNews! Keep up the great work! The whole "alternative energy shills" meme is priceless, and it looks like it is working! So again, keep it up.

      (Post-script: Don't show up in Washington just yet, though. You do not want to end up like poor Corey, when he got locked out of the Inauguration. So sad!)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @08:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @08:21AM (#456910)

    The ten rules of butthurt, with apologies to jmorris!

    Rule One: Butthurts Always Lie.
    Rule Two: Butthurts Always Double Down.
    Rule Three: Butthurts Always Project.
    Rule Four: Butthurts always deny. Felonies, Misdemeanors, Global Warming, vaccines, all of it.

    jmorris is much more familiar with the "Rules of Acquisition".