Global Warming Scaled Back, Say Two New Studies

[Free Vulcan]

Last year was the hottest year in the surface temperature record according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In contrast, 2015 was the third warmest year according to the satellite temperature record. Given record breaking heat in the first few months of 2016, NOAA is now projecting that there is a 99 percent chance that the current year will be the hottest on record - basically about 1.5 degrees Celsius above the 1891-1910 baseline. The 1.5 degree Celsius increase is significant because last December the nations of world agreed at Paris U.N. climate change conference to try to keep future average temperatures below that threshold.

A strong El Nino which greatly warms the Eastern Pacific Ocean is responsible for boosting average global temperatures in the past year. That phenomenon is now abating and may soon be replaced by a La Nina which will dramatically cool the waters of the Eastern Pacific and drag down the global average. Clearly natural variations in temperature can and do drive temperature trends in the short-run, but what about the long-run?

Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2016/05/27/global-warming-scaled-back-say-two-new-s

[Relic]

Everyone knows the planet is warming, and it's all but certain that it's human caused.

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[don-o]

Everyone knows the planet is warming, and it's all but certain that it's human caused.

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[Mod1]

Relic, the second half of your comment was deleted because it was an obvious attempt at thread jacking. You may delete the whole thing if you want.

[Fishrrman]

Here in Connecticut, the heat was still coming on at night up to about a week ago.

And I don't have it set high, either.