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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @03:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @03:02PM (#456983)

    > Like fifty year old wind turbine and solar cell technology? Or hundred year old electric car technology?

    Huh? If you think modern controlled-pitch, composite blade wind turbines are 50 year old tech, you need to get out more. And while there were some short range pioneer electric cars, lithium batteries that make for a somewhat acceptable range were still lab research projects in the 1970s, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery#Before_commercial_introduction [wikipedia.org]

    Sheesh, talk about living in your own echo chamber...