Nevermind the MSM stories that 2016 was the warmest year on record (since 1880). Ignore the proxy data that show it hasn’t been this warm for 115,000 years when much of south Florida was under water. Pay very close attention to the last 4 months. They were cooler than September through December 2015. The 16 successive months of record high temperatures from 2015 thorough 2016 have ended and cooling has begun! Please ignore NASA’s scary video.
NASA scientists have been saying very scary things. www.theguardian.com/… Don’t mind them.
We will make them go away.
Gavin Schmidt, director of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said: “El Niño was a factor this year, but both 2015 and 2016 would have been records even without it.” He said about 90% of the warming signal in 2016 was due to rising greenhouse gas emissions. He expects 2017 to be another extremely hot year.
The new data shows the Earth has now risen about 1.1C above the levels seen before the industrial revolution, when large-scale fossil fuel burning began. This brings it perilously close to the 1.5C target included as an aim of the global climate agreement signed in Paris in December 2015.
Pay no attention to the long term trend that shows that the critical temperature of 1.5 Celsius, will be reached in 2040. It’s a critical temperature because massive degradation of Siberian permafrost, releasing huge amounts of methane and CO2 occurred the last time it was that warm. But don’t worry, be happy because Donald Trump has a plan to solve that problem. fortune.com/...