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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @04:48AM (2 children)
The main part of the USA still mostly can't grow tropical fruit, and Alaska barely grows anything at all in the far north. Warming is good. Bring it on.
Any land lost to rising sea levels will be more than compensated by Alaska becoming livable.
(Score: 1) by Goghit on Thursday February 07 2019, @05:10AM (1 child)
Not a chance - it will still be full of Alaskans.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday February 07 2019, @07:00AM