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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @05:40AM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @05:40AM (#797626)

  Sort by total warming for each administration and just wow:

           pres party idx0 idxF yrs    slope   total
  1      Arthur     R    1    4   3 -0.07300 -0.2190
  2   Roosevelt     R   20   28   8 -0.02467 -0.1973
  3    Harrison     R    8   12   4 -0.03200 -0.1280
  4      BushHW     R  108  112   4 -0.02900 -0.1160
  5       Trump     R  136  137   1 -0.08000 -0.0800
  6     Harding     R   40   42   2 -0.03500 -0.0700
  7       Nixon     R   88   93   5 -0.00714 -0.0357
  8    Coolidge     R   42   48   6 -0.00571 -0.0343
  9      Truman     D   64   72   8  0.00033  0.0027
  10    Kennedy     D   80   82   2  0.01000  0.0200
  11     Wilson     D   32   40   8  0.00267  0.0213
  12      BushW     R  120  128   8  0.00367  0.0293
  13     Hoover     R   48   52   4  0.01000  0.0400
  14   McKinley     R   16   20   4  0.01100  0.0440
  15    Johnson     D   82   88   6  0.01214  0.0729
  16     Reagan     R  100  108   8  0.01117  0.0893
  17 Eisenhower     R   72   80   8  0.01550  0.1240
  18       Taft     R   28   32   4  0.03100  0.1240
  19       Ford     R   93   96   3  0.06500  0.1950
  20     Carter     D   96  100   4  0.05200  0.2080
  21    Clinton     D  112  120   8  0.02767  0.2213
  22 Cleveland1     D    4    8   4  0.05600  0.2240
  23 Cleveland2     D   12   16   4  0.05900  0.2360
  24      Obama     D  128  136   8  0.04383  0.3507
  25        FDR     D   52   64  12  0.03418  0.4101

  Please someone explain this to me?

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• Re:Wow, the New York Times? (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday February 07 2019, @08:53PM

  by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday February 07 2019, @08:53PM (#797960) Journal

  Please someone explain this to me?

  Easy, it's a spurious correlation. [twentytwowords.com]

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• Re:Wow, the New York Times? (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday February 07 2019, @09:52PM

  by Gaaark (41) on Thursday February 07 2019, @09:52PM (#797987) Journal

  Oooh...oooh...now sort by the number of times the average American took it up the ass!

  ;)

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