Hottest. Year. Ever.
We refer, of course, to 2016:
2016 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. It’s 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 world’s last best hope to avoid climate collapse.
Indeed, most worrisome is that climatologists have been expecting just this kind of “jump” in global temperatures for a while. There is “a vast and growing body of research,” that “humanity is about to experience a historically unprecedented spike in temperatures.” One 2015 study concluded that we could even see Arctic warming rise an alarming 1 degree Fahrenheit per decade by the 2020s.
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By: dave-dr-gonzo
David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.
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Larry Schmitt January 3rd, 2017 at 10:38
How’s that Chinese hoax going?
Suzanne McFly January 3rd, 2017 at 10:45
I would say swimmingly.
Larry Schmitt January 3rd, 2017 at 11:02
Especially for the polar bears.
amersham1046 January 3rd, 2017 at 13:50
particularity if you live in South Florida
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anothertoothpick January 3rd, 2017 at 13:12
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin repudiated Trump’s accusation telling reporters at United Nations talks in Marrakesh, Morocco, that U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush started the global warming conversation by supporting the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change during the late 1980s, according to Bloomberg News.
Trump has not yet responded to Liu’s statement.
Roctuna January 3rd, 2017 at 13:28
You’re suggesting Herr Drumpf might actually read something like a statement from a foreign official? Ain’t gonna happen. He’ll wait for Hannity or Jones to tell him what to tweet.
anothertoothpick January 3rd, 2017 at 14:42
HEY! You are talking about our Dear Leader.
hahahahahahahah
Roctuna January 3rd, 2017 at 15:25
Not my “dear” anything.
Willys41 January 3rd, 2017 at 18:23
Yeah, Reagan. He’s the guy who ripped the solar panels off the roof of the White House. Very in touch with science.
Bunya January 3rd, 2017 at 13:25
Where did you hear that? Global warming is not a hoax started by the Chinese.
It’s Jesus punishing us because we don’t hate gays or women (or Jews, or Muslims, or Atheists, etc. etc.).
Larry Schmitt January 3rd, 2017 at 13:27
It seems to me there’s plenty of hate to go around for all those groups you named.
amersham1046 January 3rd, 2017 at 13:51
you forgot Druids again , i feel so left out
oldfart January 3rd, 2017 at 14:43
Worse, being down graded to “etc.”
Bunya January 3rd, 2017 at 14:56
You’re right. I should have also included “magicians” and “soothsayers” into the list of people Jesus hates. My apologies.
robert January 3rd, 2017 at 16:10
Chinese hoax
Before or after our debt bailout loans ?
Buford2k11 January 3rd, 2017 at 13:48
umm…we were just talking about the fruit trees around here, and the usual spring swelling of the buds is happening now…and there are some old timers worried about next season’s crops…the trees are very vulnerable to freezing when the buds think it is spring time….just an observation from one of our food growing areas….
Warman1138 January 3rd, 2017 at 13:54
I can look out a window right now and count trees trying to bud it’s…….unreal. The geese don’t even bother to migrate from here anymore, they just fly around in the morning and evening looking for a place to hang out.
Warman1138 January 3rd, 2017 at 13:50
I had a fan in a window yesterday and part of last night….in N. Ohio….in January…..unreal and today is rainy windbreaker weather….in N. Ohio….in January.
oldfart January 3rd, 2017 at 14:36
The good news in all of this is,
as long as tRump keeps his mouth shut by tweeting,
there will be a lot less hot air.
robert January 3rd, 2017 at 16:07
So each year it’s getting warmer and each winter has a record snowfall
Flip a coin
Willys41 January 3rd, 2017 at 18:19
Well, you could read about the science, but what would be the point of that?
robert January 3rd, 2017 at 20:21
No mention of the winter weather here so I guess it doesn’t matter
Willys41 January 3rd, 2017 at 18:18
Doesn’t matter. There are no facts in Trumpville and there will be no climate change as long as republicans hold office. So why bother reporting on it? If South Florida disappears beneath the waves it’s just the moon, or sun spots, or a gypsy curse.
Nothing we can do about that.
trees January 4th, 2017 at 13:54
Was man made global warming responsible for the ice age?? How about the tropical climate that permeated the globe during the Jurrasic period? Is earths’ climate dynamic and ever changing, or does it stay constant, like the thermostat setting in your home???
Obewon January 5th, 2017 at 00:10
NASA and NOAA: each 21st century year is +2° F warmer than the 20th century average. Every year has been globally warmer than the 20th century average https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0ea58000850b8f4c4667cd23647893a56681b6b29c54ffc243fb8b9daba88318.jpg 1977.