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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: 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.

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