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Behold the staggering reality of the facts in the context of the Monumental Greed and Deliberate Stupidity of the Republicans and their family values role model, Comrade Donald Trump (Russian-Republican Oil Grifter).
WE ARE UNDERGOING BIG CHANGES - Top Scientists - NY Times
"Marking another milestone for a changing planet, scientists reported on Wednesday that the Earth reached its highest temperature on record in 2016 trouncing a record set only a year earlier, which beat one set in 2014. It is the first time in the modern era of global warming data that temperatures have blown past the previous record three years in a row.
"The findings come two days before the inauguration of an American president who has called global warming a Chinese plot and vowed to roll back his predecessors efforts to cut emissions of heat-trapping gases...."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/science/earth-highest-temperature-record.html?emc=edit_na_20170118&nlid=47943027&ref=cta&_r=0
doc03
(35,296 posts)Saturday it is supposed to be 60 and sunny. We rode bikes on New Years it was 45.
The climate has defiantly changed since I was a kid.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)...and the great ice storms sweeping from the heartland toward the coast...are weather events that along with other accelerated extremes form a pattern of climate turbulence that only Willfully Blind Republicans, Inc. can fail to see.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Data from NOAA and NASA, operating under a cloud of climate denial from the Trump administration, show the devastating effects of winter warmth.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09012017/arctic-antarctica-sea-ice-climate-change-noaa-nasa-trump