It was December 1984, and President Reagan had just been elected to his second term, Dynasty was the top show on TV and Madonna's Like a Virgin topped the musical charts.
It was also the last time the Earth had a cooler-than-average month.
Last month marked the planet's 400th consecutive month with above-average temperatures, federal scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday.
[...] "We live in and share a world that is unequivocally, appreciably and consequentially warmer than just a few decades ago, and our world continues to warm," said NOAA climate scientist Deke Arndt. "Speeding by a '400' sign only underscores that, but it does not prove anything new."
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday May 18 2018, @08:52PM
Long stretches of warmer than the long term average don't really mean much anyway. Any decent pre-ice-age warm swing is going to be almost entirely warmer than the long term average and those happen naturally like clockwork.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.