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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: 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!)