It's Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record
Source: The New York Times
By JOHN SCHWARTZ and NADJA POPOVICH FEB. 6, 2019
NASA scientists announced Wednesday that the Earths average surface temperature in 2018 was the fourth highest in nearly 140 years of record-keeping and a continuation of an unmistakable warming trend.
The five warmest years have, in fact, been the last five years, said Gavin A. Schmidt, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the NASA group that conducted the analysis. Were no longer talking about a situation where global warming is something in the future. Its here. Its now.
Over all, 18 of the 19 warmest years have occurred since 2001.
The results of this warming, Dr. Schmidt said, can be seen from the heat waves in Australia and extended droughts to coastal flooding in the United States, in disappearing Arctic ice and shrinking glaciers. Scientists have linked climate change to more destructive hurricanes like Michael and Florence last year, and have found links to such phenomena as the polar vortex, which last week delivered bone-chilling blasts to the American Midwest and Northeast.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/06/climate/fourth-hottest-year.html
Snackshack
(2,541 posts)It is safe to say that going forward every year will be either the hottest ever on record or in the top five hottest barring some unforeseen event.
jalan48
(13,888 posts)Young people get it. This will be THE issue in the coming years and unless our leaders put it front and center we are going to get left behind.
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)have we already reached the tipping point where what ever we do will be pointless unless there is a drastic change in the way we live? I am 75 years old and I do not think that enough people will be willing to change. I have lived long enough to know that no matter what scientists tell people they wont care because they can't or wont see it. I don't worry about the Earth, because once we are gone or at least most of us are, Earth will slowly start to set things right. The only hope I see for humans is setting up colonies on Mars although I don't think Mars wants us.
BigmanPigman
(51,632 posts)will suffer when none of this was their fault. They are the only ones who deserve to survive.
Cetacea
(7,367 posts)I hate when people say that. The planet will survive, yes, but not before virtually all living things are gone, due to us.
Mendocino
(7,511 posts)will survive will be cockroaches, kudzu and Keith Richards.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,219 posts)it's 3 am. I woke up drenched in sweat because it's 73 and 93% humidity. In FEBRUARY. I'm not supposed to need the A/C on in FEBRUARY.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)republican lies about climate change are profoundly dangerous
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