Earth’s 2016 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Globally-averaged temperatures in 2016 were 1.78 degrees Fahrenheit (0.99 degrees Celsius) warmer than the mid-20th century mean.
This makes 2016 the third year in a row to set a new record for global average surface temperatures.
The 2016 temperatures continue a long-term warming trend, according to analyses by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. NOAA scientists concur with the finding that 2016 was the warmest year on record based on separate, independent analyses of the data.
Because weather station locations and measurement practices change over time, there are uncertainties in the interpretation of specific year-to-year global mean temperature differences.
However, even taking this into account, NASA estimates 2016 was the warmest year with greater than 95 percent…
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The Secular Jurist 
Remember the fable of the emperor’s new clothes? We’re already experiencing the effects of climate disruption but we prefer to believe the narrative sold by the climate deniers.
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I believe the ongoing destruction of the formerly prosperous middle classes (yes, it was intentional) has a lot to do with it. When the bulk of the population must struggle with day-to-day survival issues, they don’t have much incentive to worry about larger issues like climate change.
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Climate scientists have warned us that warming will accelerate as positive feedbacks grow stronger. We may have just witnessed the first evidence that they were right. Global warming might now be self-sustaining. Fear of that possibility is what provoked all those hair-on-fire remarks about stopping fossil fuel burning before it became too late to stop catastrophic warming, and before it was too late to prevent the end of civilization. Personally, I think we have a few more years, at least five or six to amend our ways. If we continue to have record years, however, it’s curtains for sure :-).
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Agreed.
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