Earth just had its 400th straight warmer-than-average month thanks to global warming

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  1. MrTLegal

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    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...april-400th-consecutive-warm-month/618484002/

    400 months is thirty-three years of straight warmer-than-average temperatures, globally. In fact, that length of time is so long that climate scientists can justifiably refer to the current climate as the new average because it has lasted longer than 30 years.

    For those who want to know the source of the average, the article notes that scientists use the 20th century as the goalpost because it is a fixed period of time that is sufficiently long enough to account for climate variability and has much more data compared to previous centuries.

    And for those who want to note that the climate has changed before, I invite you to look over this chart to help you understand what types of changes you're referencing.
     
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    The problem is solely that both the left and right refuse to compromise on nuclear energy.

    Australia still produces 70%+ from coal, the right wants oil and gas exploration, the left wants renewables. As a consequence nothing gets done and the problem gets worse.
     
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    Uh-huh...right. After the EMPIRICAL DATA IS ALTERED, maybe.
     
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    Unquestionably...because with our thousands of years of study, and comparisons as we travel the universe we know all causes of planetary cycles and have ruled them ALL out.


    And of course Man can be taxed.


    What a joke. We're infants in these areas of science.
     
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    I only have to see this picture

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    to know human impact on the planet is quite significant.
    Add to that, never in history has mother Earth seen such a vast population of humans to feed.
     
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    Awesome. I can see my house from there!
     
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    Have you seen the other 90%+ of the earth that is dark or is it only good enough to focus on that small segment in the photo since it feeds your desire for a warmer globe?
     
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    For those that wont even look at your link.



    Man can be taxed, and the average Human on this planet cannot verify any of this for him/herself...we HAVE to rely on the graphs and info of others and take their word for it. Pretty obvious that this can be a bad setup for other greedy Humans to take advantage of.
     
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    Libs love to use hot months for their cries of global warming, yet we're still not breaking record heat levels that were reached in the 19th Century, which of course doesn't represent but a tiny fraction of the Earth's temps over a 4 billion year period.

    It's very pompous of the left to think that we're responsible for a climate that has cycled the same way for billions of years.
     
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    Have you seen the Earth at night 200 years ago? You know, when people were ~1 billion and moving around with horse carriages, plowing with oxes and reaping by hand?
    Hint: it was dark. :whisper:
     
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    What's the old saying about throwing a wrench in?

    We're cooling Earth by accident. Now we might try on purpose

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    As ships travel across the ocean, pollution in their exhaust creates long ribbons of clouds called ship trails. NASA

    "Scientists presented a startling revelation in January (2018) about air pollution. It can cool the atmosphere and mask some of the warming felt by the Earth.

    The effect is so strong that if all human-caused air pollution disappeared tomorrow, the Earth could rapidly warm by as much as a full degree Celsius."



    So which scientists will they believe? So pollution is causing global warming, yet getting rid of pollution will cause global warming so pollute the Earth and save it. Lol, what a cluster bomb. Glad I'm not a global worry wart like the left.
     
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    Trump just had his 555th straight day as President because Americans are distrustful of cults.
     
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    Yes, when you are constantly changing historical data to appear lower than it actually is, then it is easy to have a streak of above-average temperatures.

    That's what this is. Wake up, sheeple.
     
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    Yeah, and in the Jurassic Era the Earth was so hot that today's humans wouldn't have survived, I believe I read that it was 10 or 12°C hotter. My state sits on the Gulf of Mexico and this region's record highs were reached in the 1870's. I understand that has nothing to do with ocean temps, but why are we still cooler if everything else is hotter?

    Plus there's a wave of sunspots and that energy, or lack thereof, is slated to reach Earth in 2020. The results of those dark spots are predicted to cool it off dramatically. That type of news should at least make you happy and give you a little hope, no? Around 50 years of summers that have less UV rays almost shoots a tingle up my leg.

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    The sun may be dimming, temporarily. Don't panic; Earth is not going to freeze over. But will the resulting cooling put a dent in the global warming trend?

    A periodic solar event called a "grand minimum" could overtake the sun perhaps as soon as 2020 and lasting through 2070, resulting in diminished magnetism, infrequent sunspot production and less ultraviolet (UV) radiation reaching Earth — all bringing a cooler period to the planet that may span 50 years.

    The last grand-minimum event — a disruption of the sun's 11-year cycle of variable sunspot activity — happened in the mid-17th century. Known as the Maunder Minimum, it occurred between 1645 and 1715, during a longer span of time when parts of the world became so cold that the period was called the Little Ice Age, which lasted from about 1300 to 1850.
     
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    Right. That's why we had just one snowfall this winter. This was the "hottest" winter in my life and I'm not that young, ya know.

    Look, it's simple logic - we have more people + who live wealthier than ever. All that requires natural resources - food, water, air, oil, ore, wood, textile, etc, etc. This also means a lot of pollution (i.e. the waste all these people produce). And in a disposable economy this is even more true.
     
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    Regardless of the official 'data', we have been spewing an unheard of level of chemicals into the atmosphere and into the earth since the Industrial Revolution. To think that wouldn't have an adverse affect is the height of hubris.
     
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    I've been around for 39 years and most of our days this winter were below 32°F. A few winters ago, we had one single day below 32.
     
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    I think Thanos has the right idea doesn't he ;) Just think of how much better it would be for the rest of us if we just eliminate 1/2 the planet. Just think of the power we won't have to use, cars that won't be necessary, planes that won't need to fly, food that won't need to be produced and resources that could be more easily distributed. Is he really insane or just a genius=) The funny thing is, nature has a way of doing just that. But we keep fighting it. We keep trying to save all the people starving or dying of disease...but if they can't even feed themselves or cure themselves, shouldn't nature have their way with them? Are we trying to replace nature and **** with the order of things a little too much, insuring a planet not designed for all of us?

    This is just spitballing...not to be taken overly serious. But it makes you think.
     
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    Whichever "scientists" cite global INCOME REDISTRIBUTION as "The Solution"...which is, of course, the UN "solution" for everything.
     
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    See, that's the thing with global warming - it's uneven. One place in hot, the other is cold; one spot is pounded with rains, the other with drought; one place will have stalled air, th other tornadoes.
    It's like a fever, you know - you have temperature and feel cold at the same time. Paradox, ain't it?
     
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    What was the avg monthly temp for May 25,000BC?
     
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    The UN/World Socialist/Left hasn't figured out how to TAX the ocean for producing the without-question PRIMARY greenhouse gas..WATER VAPOR.....
     
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    What is the ideal mean Earth temp. BTW? What should we be shooting for, as "ideal"?
     
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