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NASA: ‘Planetary warming does not care about the election’
A very warm October ensures 2016 will be the hottest year by far.
NASA Land and Ocean Temperature Index (LOTI) for October.
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A very warm October ensures 2016 will be the hottest year by far.
NASA Land and Ocean Temperature Index (LOTI) for October.
Last month was the second-hottest October on record, NASA reported Tuesday. Combined with a record-smashing January through September — and a very warm November — this new data guarantee that 2016 will demolish the previous record for hottest year, set way back in 2015.
Of course, 2015 itself crushed the previous record for hottest year that was set in 2014 — a three-year run never seen in the 136 years of temperature records.
Dr. Gavin Schmidt, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, wants everyone to know that our current man-made global warming is indifferent to politics:
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No surprise here, planetary warming does not care about the election. Now including October data.
Climatologists actually predicted this latest “jump” in global temperatures.
There is “a vast and growing body of research,” Climate Central explained in February 2015, indicating 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°F (0.56°C) per decade by the next decade.
Speaking of the Arctic, look again at the top map from NASA. Large parts of the Arctic super-heated in October, as much 15.6 6°F (8.7°C) above the 1951–1980 mean temperature. No surprise, then, that last month saw the lowest October ice extent on record and that “as of November 1, sea ice volume is lowest on record.”
No, the climate doesn't give a flying fucking damn about human idiocy!