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NASA scientists announced Wednesday that the Earth’s average surface temperature in 2018 was the fourth highest in nearly 140 years of record-keeping and a continuation of an unmistakable warming trend.
“The five warmest years have, in fact, been the last five years,” said Gavin A. Schmidt, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the NASA group that conducted the analysis. “We’re no longer talking about a situation where global warming is something in the future. It’s here. It’s now.”
Over all, 18 of the 19 warmest years have occurred since 2001.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/06/climate/fourth-hottest-year.html
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It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Entropy on Wednesday February 06 2019, @10:57PM (15 children)
We're all dead. Right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @11:01PM (2 children)
Interesting that 11 years is one solar cycle, and we are just now about to begin cycle 25. Further, cycle 25 has been predicted for a number of reasons to be the start of a ~50 year grand solar minimum. Past GSMs have corresponded with extreme geo-climatic events. Coincidence?
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday February 06 2019, @11:09PM (1 child)
Interesting that 11 years is one solar cycle
Sure... and it's also interesting that the planet is warmer than 11 years ago, 22 years ago, 33 years ago, etc...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @11:23PM
Are you saying 11 years was just a random number? I thought it was based on climate models: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez-climate-change-alarm/2642481002/ [usatoday.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @11:04PM (8 children)
Translation: If it doesn't affect me in my lifetime, I don't give a fuck. Also, fuck the children. Fuck the granchildren.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @11:11PM (3 children)
Are those new categories on pornhub?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @11:27PM
They are not new.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @11:43PM (1 child)
I think all that mom-son dad-daughter, etc stuff is just on there to try to get people to sign up so they can filter it out.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @02:03AM
Wait, pornhub has an interpretation of The Aristocrats? Huh. Didn't know they catered to such refined tastes.
(Score: 4, Informative) by aristarchus on Wednesday February 06 2019, @11:48PM (3 children)
Um, aristarchus here. It has affected me, and is likely to continue to do so.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @01:09AM (2 children)
Good. Our work here is done.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday February 07 2019, @06:26AM (1 child)
Well, no. I lived through countless solar maxima, and even the larger cycles, like the little ice age starting about 1300, right after the Black Death, which I fortunately avoided. But this is different. Take it from an astrophysicist that is 2300+ years old: This is the first time in the history of the planet that humans are responsible for the change in climate. Yes, algal blooms and other thing may have happened in the past, but they did not know what they were doing, being algae and whatnot. Now, we have sentient beings (excludingRunaway, of course) that are responsible, by their deliberate actions of burning fossil fuels, that are causing climate change, which means, of course and "duh", they could have not, or having realized they did, undertake countermeasures to mitigate the least desirable consequences?
One of the desireable consequence that I see, coming out of the whole thing, is 1. More Barley in Canada, and 2. The death of the Republican party. They will follow the Whigs, for much the same reasons. Reality has a well known liberal bias.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @09:23AM
Even runaway got sentience. I suspect he borrowed it from brown algae stuck on his forehead while he served in the Navy. Sometime, he'll need to give it back, though.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday February 06 2019, @11:06PM (2 children)
Yes, according to all the scientists that live only in your head, global warming will kill all humans.
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday February 06 2019, @11:12PM (1 child)
Fuck em. I never liked them much anyway.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by krishnoid on Thursday February 07 2019, @12:03AM
I bet this one statement explains a lot about global warming denialists.