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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, Insightful) by khallow on Sunday January 22 2017, @12:32AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 22 2017, @12:32AM (#457181) Journal
    So in other words, I am right. The US doesn't buy it from its enemies. And oil is not that fungible. There is still the matter of where the oil is and who is willing to buy it. Eliminate the biggest purchasers and you'll have to sell your oil at a discount, even if someone just covertly rebrands it and sells to the US or an ally.

    Second, who again is actually an enemy of the US? And why does harming them matter more than helping the US from the point of view of the US?
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