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It’s official: July was Earth’s hottest month on record

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Re: It’s official: July was Earth’s hottest month on record

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Post by nanis »

> Around the globe: the combined land and ocean-surface temperature was 1.67 degrees F (0.93 of a degree C) above the 20th-century average of 60.4 degrees F (15.8 degrees C), making it the hottest July since records began 142 years ago.

If you are curious about where humans were measuring temperatures between 1880 and now, I put together an animation[1] of temperature station locations in GHCNv3 some time ago. With GHCNv4 out, it is due for an update, but still informative.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h95uvT67bNg

Re: It’s official: July was Earth’s hottest month on record

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Post by thatguy0900 »

lmilcin wrote: post #8

Who still believes global warming does not exist? I am currently listening to audiobook of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (1998). It has a paragraph on global warming and trying to convince POTUS it is real. And POTUS not wanting to act on it because it would be too large economic drag on US. This book is almost quarter of century old.

I suspect more deniers just think it will be the next generations problem rather than something that entirely doesn't exist, personally

Re: It’s official: July was Earth’s hottest month on record

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Post by lhorie »

SimeVidas wrote: post #9

What was the previous record?

FTA:

> the combined land and ocean-surface temperature was 1.67 degrees F (0.93 of a degree C) above the 20th-century average of 60.4 degrees F (15.8 degrees C), making it the hottest July since records began 142 years ago. It was 0.02 of a degree F (0.01 of a degree C) higher than the previous record set in July 2016, which was then tied in 2019 and 2020

Re: It’s official: July was Earth’s hottest month on record

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Post by echelon »

orf wrote: post #7

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal And this is still a thing.

Yeah, these assholes:

(Warning: these videos will make you very mad.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS5psOvHFIE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdDxjge5hmY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHmJSsRLgj4

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/j1yj0c/trum...

This should be some sort of crime.

edit: Sorry, I edited out my comment about this probably giving bikers cancer after I included more videos. This can't be healthy for the lungs.

edit 2: Downvoted to -3 for calling out this shitty behavior? y'all are insane.

Re: It’s official: July was Earth’s hottest month on record

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Post by vkou »

thatguy0900 wrote: post #12
lmilcin wrote: post #8

Who still believes global warming does not exist? I am currently listening to audiobook of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (1998). It has a paragraph on global warming and trying to convince POTUS it is real. And POTUS not wanting to act on it because it would be too large economic drag on US. This book is almost quarter of century old.

I suspect more deniers just think it will be the next generations problem rather than something that entirely doesn't exist, personally

I think denialism has moved on to 'We're fine as we are, this is a problem that developing countries should be solving.'

Re: It’s official: July was Earth’s hottest month on record

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Post by joshgrib »

orf wrote: post #7

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal And this is still a thing.

I know someone who does this and also argues at the same time that diesel engines are better for the environment, I'm pretty sure based on the efficiency but ignoring the exhaust
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