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posted by martyb on Friday May 18 2018, @10:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the gonna-need-a-MUCH-bigger-parasol dept.

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."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/05/17/global-warming-april-400th-consecutive-warm-month/618484002/?csp=chromepush


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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 19 2018, @02:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 19 2018, @02:18PM (#681578)

    Therefore we should all become communist. That'll fix it. Look at China they have zero emissions. We should emulate that.

    Sounds like troll remark, this is basically what the problem has devolved into since it has been treated into a political issue.

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