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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 art guerrilla on Saturday January 21 2017, @01:51PM

    by art guerrilla (3082) on Saturday January 21 2017, @01:51PM (#456962)

    um, your presumption is that the present energy infrastructure that is so pwecious and has to be status quo'ed for ever and ever amen, is somehow an optimal system... we are not messing with a perfected system which is delicately balanced on a knife edge; we are replacing a system rife with corruption, inefficiencies, destroying competitors, and rent-seeking... it is NOT a perfected/optimal system in any way, shape, or form, EXCEPT for the oligarchs who control that sector...
    unless you count mere existence as over-riding reason for never changing any man-made system...

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday January 22 2017, @01:05AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 22 2017, @01:05AM (#457199) Journal

    um, your presumption is that the present energy infrastructure that is so pwecious and has to be status quo'ed for ever and ever amen, is somehow an optimal system...

    It doesn't have to be optimal. It merely needs to be better.

    we are replacing a system rife with corruption, inefficiencies, destroying competitors, and rent-seeking...

    No, we aren't. Look at the large businesses in the renewables sector. They rent-seek with the best of them. They take massive amounts of public funds and guarantees and turn it into mediocre energy projects combined with great profits for the parent company who isn't liable for the failure of the subsidiary taking on the risk.