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Related: About this forumMake America Dust Again; 2016 Global Temperatures Crush Prior Records; 3-Yr Record Run Unprecedented
?w=6602016 has crushed the record for hottest year, set way back in 2015, which itself smashed the previous record for hottest year that was set in 2014. Such a three-year run has never been seen in the 136 years of temperature records. Its but the latest in an avalanche of evidence this year that global warming will either be as bad as climate scientists have been warning for decades or much worse.
The much worse case is especially likely if Donald Trump and his team of deniers and pro-Putin Big Oil shills follow through on his promise to destroy the Paris climate deal, the worlds last best hope to avoid climate collapse.
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Only very aggressive cuts in carbon pollution could plausibly save our major coastal cities and avoid a trillion-dollar housing bubble crash. And only the unanimous Paris pledge of ever deeper CO2 cuts by the nations of the world can save the Americas breadbaskets in California and the Great Plains from Dust-Bowlification that is irreversible on the timescale of centuries. Turning these regions into Dust Bowls will create endless failed states, violence, conflict, and multiple refugee crises that dwarf Syrias.
Not only did Trumps incoming Chief of Staff Reince Priebus tell Fox News that climate science denial will be Trumps default position but back in May, CBS in Sacramento ran a story with this actual headline: Donald Trump Tells California There Is No Drought As Drought Continues.
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https://thinkprogress.org/2016-hottest-year-on-record-by-far-9fc58ac4cb96#.e4eqy2eqi
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Make America Dust Again; 2016 Global Temperatures Crush Prior Records; 3-Yr Record Run Unprecedented (Original Post)
hatrack
Jan 2017
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OKIsItJustMe
(19,938 posts)1. As much as I would like to, we can't blame this on Trump yet
Come January 20th, we can blame him for the mess weve made for the past couple of centuries, but, not before.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)2. You're right, this is still Obama's fault.
Thanks, Obama.
mackdaddy
(1,523 posts)3. Not a math major, but the The future Blue dots, don't seem
To be where the Black dots already are.
Guess it would look too much like a hockey stick.
OKIsItJustMe
(19,938 posts)4. It's curve fitting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve_fitting
One might complain that the blue line was too high in the previous three years.
One might complain that the blue line was too high in the previous three years.