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2016 is the Hottest Year on Record

posted by on Saturday January 21 2017, @05:52AM   
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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• Re:New year, same lie Re:New year, same lie (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @10:26AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @10:26AM (#456927)

  "Liars" "Gates" "Name Drop" "Hockey Stick"

  Propaganda spewing jmo, doesn't even understand basic large scale systems. "What a sham, can you believe if you zoom to a normal temperature range that graph looks almost like a straight line! What a bunch of balooooney!" says the person who doesn't understand that a change of less than a degree over anything less than millenia is a huge shift that simply does not occur without some natural disaster. In this case the natural disaster is humanity, and we should start taking care of our messes lest this Earth becomes less hospitable.

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• Re:New year, same lie (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @02:01PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @02:01PM (#456969)

  a change of less than a degree over anything less than millenia is a huge shift that simply does not occur without some natural disaster.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_core#/media/File:Vostok_Petit_data.svg [wikipedia.org]

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