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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Global Warming - Reviewing 2015

Climate Central: Global Warming Key Driver of 2015’s Record Heat
"2015 is a climate milestone in several ways. Atmospheric carbon dioxide has now passed 400 [parts per million] for the foreseeable future. It will also be the warmest year on record, primarily because of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases, with CO2 being the main culprit," Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the University of Reading, said in an email.

The average global temperature for 2015 is well ahead of last year, the current titleholder of warmest year. October provided a particularly large boost, with a temperature that was above average by more than any other single month in the past 135 years. By NASA’s reckoning, October was more than a full degree Celsius (nearly 2°F) above the average from 1951-1980, the first month that has ever happened.

2 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

My GOP pals tell me it's all just a made up hoax and that all the World's scientists are a bunch of sheep who are being directed from some secret central command. Oh and that it's a liberal plot to raise everyone's taxes. Ohhh scary.

Jim Sande said...

That's pathetic. They got the horse blinders on, if they can't see it, it's not there. That sort of obstinate anti-knowledge approach flies in the face of human potential and dignity.