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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 11:49 AM Jan 2017

U.S. scientists officially declare 2016 the hottest year on record. That makes three in a row.

Source: The Washington Post

By Chris Mooney January 18 at 10:30 AM



In a powerful testament to the warming of the planet, two leading U.S. science agencies Wednesday jointly declared 2016 the hottest year on record, surpassing the previous record set just last year which, itself, had topped a record set in 2014.

Average surface temperatures in 2016, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, were 0.07 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than 2015, and featured eight successive months (January through August) that were individually the warmest since the agencys record began in 1880.

The average temperature across the worlds land and ocean surfaces was 58.69 Fahrenheit, or 1.69 degrees above the 20th century average of 57 degrees, NOAA declared. The agency also noted that the record for the global temperature has now successively been broken five times since the year 2000. The years 2005 and 2010 were also record warm years, according to the agencys dataset.

NASA concurred with NOAA, also declaring 2016 the warmest year on record in its own dataset that tracks the temperatures at the surface of the planets land and oceans, and expressing greater than 95 percent certainty in that conclusion. The agency noted that just since the year 2001 the planet has seen 16 of the 17 warmest years on record.


Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/01/18/u-s-scientists-officially-declare-2016-the-hottest-year-on-record-that-makes-three-in-a-row/?utm_term=.e361336f8267&wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-world%252Bnation

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Roy Rolling

(6,856 posts)
1. Have Trump voters weighed in?
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 11:53 AM
Jan 2017

The scientific community won't know for sure until some idiots are given equal time, to be politically correct.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
8. Just tossed one of the novels passed along from
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 06:38 PM
Jan 2017

my DIL and her friends. They end with me, and I normally drop off at a thrift, but! This murder mystery has the heroine pursuing her dream of becoming a vintner in the southwest, already growing a huge spread of fine grapes, etc., etc. No mention of water issues.

An unpleasantly dark and ungenerous view of human nature that is typical of conservatives (plus a great distaste for the city and precious little diversity) makes the author's orientation easy to guess, so no big surprise that not a word is mentioned about the reality that wine regions from Bordeaux to Napa to Lebanon are facing huge existential issues due to climate change and that many will not be able to survive. I flipped to the end, though, and supposedly the heroine and the hero who saves her will be making fine wines together forever after.

So in a manner of speaking, yes, this author weighed in on global warming. Still in denial, even though her area of the country has taken some terrible hits already.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
6. Republicans don't give a shit. They are making major oil bucks, and greazing the skids everywhere
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 12:57 PM
Jan 2017

The Republicans - especially under their family values role model Comrade Casino - are out to plunder the planet for their own fat asses, and leave nothing but a charred wasteland for the generations to come.

WWJD? - What Would Jesus Do? HE'd get Almighty Enraged, and then drive the freaking KGOP Money Grubbers from the Hallowed Temples of the Government of these United States of America.

BumRushDaShow

(127,317 posts)
7. The past couple years, the NE US has been running a little "cooler" than others
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 02:46 PM
Jan 2017

This past year, that really went away!

2015


2014


2013

burfman

(264 posts)
9. More solar & wind power along with better Lithium batteries.....
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 07:01 PM
Jan 2017

Who needs coal & oil anymore? Give it two decades or so and we won't be using it, because of the economics.

Though it would be a lot better for everyone if we worked towards speeding up the process.....


Burfman...................

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