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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: 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]