re: 2018 was Earth's 4th hottest year on record

Reading these threads is always like a Who's Who of underachievers in elementary science.

But, but, muh earth always goes through climate cycles!

Yes, dum dums, everyone, especially the scientists, knows this.

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Slow it down or at least stop the bleeding? I think we can. Maybe not with today's technology, but in future I believe we will be able to capture our emissions much more effectively.

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I agree with this.

This NYT article is particularly troublesome I find because it hints that in order to see drastic changers to curb global warming the US will have to take a hit economically.

NYTimes

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As United States manufacturing boomed, for instance, emissions from the nation’s industrial sectors — including steel, cement, chemicals and refineries — increased by 5.7 percent. Policymakers working on climate change at the federal and state level have so far largely shied away from regulating heavy industry, which directly contributes about one-sixth of the country’s carbon emissions. Instead, they’ve focused on decarbonizing the electricity sector through actions like promoting wind and solar power.

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But, as America’s economy expanded last year, trucking and air travel also grew rapidly, leading to a 3 percent increase in diesel and jet fuel use and spurring an overall rise in transportation emissions for the year. Air travel and freight have also attracted less attention from policymakers to date and are considered much more difficult to electrify or decarbonize.

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But if the world wants to avert the most dire effects of global warming, major industrialized countries, including the United States, will have to cut their fossil-fuel emissions much more drastically than they are currently doing.

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“The U.S. has led the world in emissions reductions in the last decade thanks in large part to cheap gas displacing coal,” said Jason Bordoff, director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, who was not involved in the analysis. “But that has its limits, and markets alone will not deliver anywhere close to the pace of decarbonization needed without much stronger climate policy efforts that are unfortunately stalled if not reversed under the Trump administration.”

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termites

Termite and Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Facts:

Scientists have calculated that termites alone produce ten times as much carbon dioxide as all the fossil fuels burned in the whole world in a year.

Pound for pound, the weight of all the termites in the world is greater than the total weight of humans.

Scientists estimate that, worldwide, termites may release over 150 million tons of methane gas into the atmosphere annually. In our lower atmosphere this methane then reacts to form carbon dioxide and ozone.

It is estimated that for every human on Earth there may be 1000 pounds of termites.

On the average Termites expel gas composed of about 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen, 9% carbon dioxide, 7% methane, and 4% oxygen.

Also, I don't trust land based measurements. Balloons and satellites tell a different tale.

Wow. There are a bunch of people triggered by simply being told the temperature. Interesting.

He's the first "scientist" I know willing to make assumptions on less than 1/1000th percent data set

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But it snowed last week.

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That was in 2019, nothing to do with last years global warming

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I cant remember in the 32 years ive been alive a Polar Vortex reaching as far down as friggin Louisiana.

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Go look at weather records for Christmas 1989.

date high low
12/21 47 27
12/22 27 13
12/23 25 8
12/24 37 10
12/25 51 22

We didn't call it a "Polar Vortex"...
It was just a Hellacious cold snap.

There was a comparable cold snap around Jan 11 1962.

But polar vortex in north U.S.

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The authors found that disease and war wiped out 90 percent of the indigenous population in the Americas, or about 55 million people. The earth, they argue, then reclaimed the land that these populations left behind. The new vegetation pulled heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and into the land, contributing to what scientists refer to as the “Little Ice Age.”

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2018 was Earth's 4th hottest year on record

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This is due to the global weather effects of global cooling.