{"id":133067,"date":"2017-03-16T16:01:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T22:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/16\/yup-we-keep-setting-global-heat-records.html"},"modified":"2017-03-16T16:01:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T22:01:32","slug":"yup-we-keep-setting-global-heat-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/16\/yup-we-keep-setting-global-heat-records.html","title":{"rendered":"Yup, we keep setting global heat records"},"content":{"rendered":"

But let's not do anything about it, because it would cost money and be inconvenient and require more social welfare for jobs that are lost and maybe put us at less of a massive advantage economically over other countries. Oh, and it would be stomping out use of fossil fuels, which would make many rich people very sad.<\/p>\n

Ah, well. At least I assume NASA will stop having money for the office that produces irritating maps like this, so we can ignore the problem for a decade or two.<\/p>\n

Originally shared by +Charles Carrigan<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Feb. 2017 was the 2nd warmest Feb ever directly measured, in 137 years. <\/p>\n

This wouldn't be news IF the number of cold records being broken were anywhere close to the number of warm records. But warm records just keep getting broken, year after year, month after month, region after region. The pattern of warming is undeniable. <\/p>\n

https:\/\/data.giss.nasa.gov\/gistemp\/news\/20170315\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nData.GISS: GISTEMP Update: February 2017 Was Second Warmest February On Record<\/a><\/span>
\nFebruary 2017 was the second warmest February in 137 years of modern record-keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. Last month was 1.1 degrees Celsius warmer than the mean February …\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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But let's not do anything about it, because it would cost money and be inconvenient and require more social welfare for jobs that are lost and maybe put us at less of a massive advantage economically over other countries. 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