Earth just had its 400th straight warmer-than-average month thanks to global warming

[Eugene]

Source: USA Today

Earth just had its 400th straight warmer-than-average month thanks to global warming

Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Published 11:04 a.m. ET May 17, 2018 | Updated 11:33 a.m. ET May 17, 2018

It was December 1984, and President Reagan had just been elected to his second term, Dynasty was the top show on TV and Madonna's Like a Virgin topped the musical charts.

It was also the last time the Earth had a cooler-than-average month.

Last month marked the planet's 400th consecutive month with above-average temperatures, federal scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday.

The cause for the streak? Unquestionably, it’s climate change, caused by humanity's burning of fossil fuels.

"We live in and share a world that is unequivocally, appreciably and consequentially warmer than just a few decades ago, and our world continues to warm," said NOAA climate scientist Deke Arndt. "Speeding by a '400' sign only underscores that, but it does not prove anything new."

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[Moostache]

1. We are doomed if we don't get better representatives and fast...

When we as a people allow an administration that denies reality to ban even the use of the words "climate change" in official communications, this is not a problem that can be solved with the status quo.

[Dustlawyer]

2. The only hope in our country is to eliminate the ability of the corporations and the wealthy

industrialists such as the Koch brothers from being able to exert their influence on OUR so called Representatives. We must fight for Publicly funded elections and a separation between the media and their advertising departments.

This would take a whole lot of people who recognize the problem and willing to fight to make it happen. Seems to me that we get bogged down in the symptoms of the problem with campaign contributions and Lobbyists. We fight against what they are currently doing to us instead of fighting to remove their ability to do it!

[StevieM]

4. I see your point but part of the problem goes beyond that. How do we get the citizenry to get behind

a massive plan to transform our transportation economy? We need to shift our cars to clean energy sources and that is a massive undertaking. I think we need flow battery cars so that you can fuel up with electricity. That might take public investment in research and heavy government involvement in building the infrastructure.

Then there is the matter of space and water heating, which doesn't get nearly as much focus in terms of proposed solutions.

The problem is so massive and cannot be solved simply by dealing with corporations, although I agree that is part of it, with people like the Koch brothers. But part of it is ideological and the need to change the perspective of the American people.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Meanwhile the moron has banned the scientists from releasing info

and has basically fired everyone or forced them out, underfunded research and stopped info from being released to the public. Fortunately our allies' scientists are continuing with their work and will share their studies with us.

Even if we stopped all the polluting that contributes to climate change there has been too much damage for too long and it can't be undone. The future of our planet has been sold by greedy corporations and governments around the world for too long. I am sad for the plants and animals that will suffer due to the humans.

[hatrack]

5. Tool Monkeys - FUCK YEAH!!!!

[NNadir]

6. Don't be ridiculous!! There's an "Energy Revolution" going on!!!!! Solar and Wind, with Elon...

...Musk's fabulous electric car are saving the day!

I hear it all over the internet!!!!

Indium is "renewable!"

Cadmium is green!

Solar prices are now negative they've dropped so much!!!

They're dropping more!!!

Coal is dead!!!!

We have so little carbon dioxide we have to fear an ice age!!!

Someone is misreporting this! It's not hot on this planet! We're saved by the "solar revolution!" Solartopia!!!

The Kochs are up to something no doubt, trying to make it seem like maybe solar and wind haven't saved the day, or maybe it's those awful people at the International Energy Agency who wrote this awful book, IEA 2017 World Energy Outlook that claims that all the wind and solar output built after half a century of cheering didn't even match 1/6 of the amount that coal use grew in the 21st century.

[miyazaki]

7. Ha, Solartopia? Guess that first class idiot Wasserman is still running his pet web site.

Some of the best thirty minutes of radio I ever heard was when Wasserman had his ass royally handed to him by a physicist arguing about nuclear power.

[NNadir]

8. Well as much as I might have enjoyed hearing...

...that almost criminal moron get his handed to him by a scientist, it wouldn't be worth paying any attention whatsoever to his toxic drivel.

As far as I'm concerned, he and Caldicott are guilty of manslaughter, with the weapon being ignorance.