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It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record

posted by martyb on Wednesday February 06 2019, @10:47PM   
from the Hot-Stuff dept.

DeathMonkey writes:

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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• Re:Wow, the New York Times? Re:Wow, the New York Times? (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @01:55AM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @01:55AM (#797556)

  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...

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• Re:Wow, the New York Times? Re:Wow, the New York Times? (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @02:43AM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @02:43AM (#797576)

  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

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  • Re:Wow, the New York Times? Re:Wow, the New York Times? (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @02:58AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @02:58AM (#797579)

    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.

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    • Re:Wow, the New York Times? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @06:45PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @06:45PM (#797877)

      Parent comment is not wrong, it's just that parent has not yet discovered Marx and Trotsky.

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