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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: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday February 06 2019, @11:17PM (9 children)
You should probably have a look at historical trend lines and pay special attention to what they did leading up to ice ages. It's relevant.
Why yes, in an unchecked warming scenario the increase in cloud albedo could end up triggering an ice age.
Thanks for reminding us what a serious threat global warming presents!
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @11:28PM (7 children)
The biggest problem is no one wants to take the real threat of climate change (obviously many very bad climatic shifts have occurred in the past) seriously now since it has been mixed up with this CO2 nuttiness. They don't want to be associated with people like that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @12:05AM (4 children)
CO2 nuttiness? Hi nutter!
CO2 does cause a greenhouse effect along with increasing the acidity of the oceans, both very bad things right now.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @01:55AM (3 children)
If climate change had been framed as a "man vs nature" thing rather than "humans bad, the solution is raising taxes", you would get a lot more people concerned about it.
Just sayin...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @02:43AM (2 children)
well that is how it started, but nah, it doesn't matter how it is framed because the susceptible would fall prey to the oil companies' propaganda either way
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @02:58AM (1 child)
Your post reminds me of:
increase women in the workforce ->
increase immigrants in the workforce ->
increase outsourcing ->
increase illegal immigrants in the workforce
It is interesting that these wage suppression policies have all been adopted to increase "social/moral progress". Meanwhile almost no politician even mentions the federal reserve (who besides Donald Trump and Ron Paul?), and the policy to "target" a magic number of 2% inflation every year while massaging the stats to ensure wages and pensions will always lag behind prices.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @06:45PM
Parent comment is not wrong, it's just that parent has not yet discovered Marx and Trotsky.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @01:53AM (1 child)
Meh. There's no way the humans can do anything about it until they decide they're tired of living under dictatorship of the oligarchy. I look down on the pale blue dot, and I wonder why the humans are satisfied with a system that steals from the poor and gives to the rich.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @09:17AM
They can't imagine better. And when some can, others will call them communists.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday February 07 2019, @01:32PM
Dude, don't be a dumbass. Ice ages happen on Earth, there's fuck all you can do to avoid them on any significant time scale, and we're already overdue for another. The climate change you lot keep bitching about is why we're not already in one according to the very same scientists you're pointing to for climate change data.
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