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posted by martyb on Saturday November 04 2017, @12:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the getting-warmer dept.

According to a new government report obtained by NPR, it is "extremely likely" that human activities are the "dominant cause" of global warming.

The report states that the last 115 years are "the warmest in the history of modern civilization."

The report "NCA4" is the nation's most authoritative assessment of climate science. The report's authors include experts from leading scientific agencies, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA and the Department of Energy, as well as academic scientists.

Also at Ars Technica:

The topline conclusion is obviously the degree to which observed global warming is human-caused, and the report pulls no punches: “Many lines of evidence demonstrate that it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century. Over the last century, there are no convincing alternative explanations supported by the extent of the observational evidence.”


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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:21PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:21PM (#592189)

    ...abandoned sheep farming areas can be revived now that climate changes...

    Q.E.D.
    Now what was that sob story about "warmest in the history of modern civilization" again? ;)

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  • (Score: 2) by fritsd on Saturday November 04 2017, @08:22PM

    by fritsd (4586) on Saturday November 04 2017, @08:22PM (#592280) Journal

    The report states that the last 115 years are "the warmest in the history of modern civilization."

    Greenland is expected to warm much quicker than most of the rest of the world (being in the Arctic), but I'm doing a wild guess that "the warmest in the history of modern civilization" from TFA referred to GLOBAL warming not GREENLAND warming.
    OTOH, parent comment *was* specifically about East Canada ("Vinland", amirite?) and Greenland warming. The Vikings abandoned their settlements on Greenland [wikipedia.org]; it must have gotten too cold for too many years *locally*.