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2016 is the Hottest Year on Record

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

DeathMonkey writes:

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 Niño 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.

butthurt adds:

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 sjames on Saturday January 21 2017, @07:22AM

    by sjames (2882) on Saturday January 21 2017, @07:22AM (#456896) Journal

    Yep, every year people yell "IT"S NOT! IT'S NOT IT'S NOT! LALALALALALALALALALA" *stomp* *stomp* *stomp*

    Same old lie.

    Then we hear about how in 1623 Jim Smith recorded a higher temperature (after he dropped his thermometer in a fire) so it can't be the hottest.

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