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: 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!
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