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
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @01:10AM (9 children)
Yep, if we needed to decide who is best for people concerned about global warming you can see it is clearly the republicans.
The temperature has dropped (very slightly ~ 0.003 C/yr) on average during Republican presidencies, but has risen ~0.021 C/yr during Democrat administrations.
There were actually 68 years of Democratic presidencies in this dataset and 73 of republicans. That works out to a total of ~ 1.4 C warming during democrats and 0.21 C cooling during republicans.
https://i.ibb.co/VvmbbLk/temp-By-Pres.png [i.ibb.co]
That's the facts. I'm surprised no one has noticed this before.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @01:12AM
Data sources:
https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/ [nasa.gov]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States [wikipedia.org]
Final dataset:
https://pastebin.com/UXWDmjLR [pastebin.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @01:34AM (2 children)
Also, here is how it broke down by president:
You can see the republican data is skewed upwards by including the last two years of Hayes way back in 1880-1881. That was just the start point of the temperature data.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @01:59AM (1 child)
*snort* lol! I can't even. Didn't we already have this debate about the effect the letter behind the name of the uniparty's puppet in the Oval Office has on the economy, which also seems to be a chaotic system that does not react immediately to its inputs?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @02:07AM
I don't proffer any explanation for this phenomenon, but there does seem to be something to it. I'd love to see someone take this further, not sure it is worth it to me.
So, you think there is a lag then plot the data with the lag. I shared all that is needed in the comments here, but if you need anything else (eg the entire code to make the charts, etc) I will gladly share.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday February 07 2019, @01:54AM (4 children)
Confusing weather and climate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @02:01AM (3 children)
How about this (the same data as above sorted by trend)? The TOP 8 most cooling presidencies on record are all Republican:
The TFA story is about the 4th warmest year on record. These presidencies each consist of at least 2 years, so each datapoint is at least double the timeframe the TFA is concerned about.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @05:40AM (2 children)
Sort by total warming for each administration and just wow:
Please someone explain this to me?
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday February 07 2019, @08:53PM
Please someone explain this to me?
Easy, it's a spurious correlation. [twentytwowords.com]
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday February 07 2019, @09:52PM
Oooh...oooh...now sort by the number of times the average American took it up the ass!
;)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---