The hottest 12 months in the past 125,000 years...so far.
this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2023
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These headlines need to start including the word "again".
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So original
If only someone could have warned us about this
Nobody could have predicted this. NOBODY! /s
We can't disappoint the stakeholders. Next 12 months needs to be hotter.
Every disaster movie starts with government ignoring and mocking scientists.
Is it because I wore that tight muscle shirt to the park?
How do I delete the "/s" on someone else's comment?
P.s. You can wear that tight muscle shirt or you can just pop it off real quick. It's your choice.
In the late 90’s my girlfriend worked in the office for an ice core climatologist, and her job was partly to screen out the crazies on the phone. Sometimes one would get through and she’d feel really bad.
Feel bad about???
Letting a crazy through
Through what exactly? Phone?
Yes. I'm confused at how this is confusing?
Generally a receptionist/secretary spends a significant part of their day screening calls.
But who was phone??
/s
Yet we're too busy fighting with each other to care.
Oh yeah? Why don't you just shut your mouth about it?!
A local climatologist basically said "We'll remember 2023 as 'the year it all started'".
So can someone actually explain how we know that; let's say, exactly 116,342 years ago it wasn't half a degree hotter on average that year?
I get the global trends for hundreds of years to average out a general baseline of how temps were, but what is being tested or checked that say even 130 years ago the everage temp wasn't warmer that year? It seems like this 12 months being the hottest is more like an educated and informed guess than an actual fact.
There are scientists who study ice cores. Every summer a bit of ice in the north pole melts exposing liquid water to the air and interacting with it. Every winter that liquid freezes again. What we are left with are layers of ice that have been frozen in different years. These layers go back thousands of years. With our knowledge of atomic physics, we know what kind of isotopes exist in the atmosphere at certain temperatures. With this knowledge we can calculate the temperature of the earth in years past. We can also measure the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere that was present in the past. With this information we have found the is a direct relation to the temperature of the earth and the amount of CO2 present in the atmosphere.
I am sure someone can explain this better than me, but this is the jist of it.