What were climate scientists predicting in the 1970s?
The fact is that around 1970 there were 6 times as many scientists predicting a warming rather than a cooling planet.
Their papers showed that the growing amount of greenhouse gasses that humans were putting into the atmosphere would cause much greater warming - warming that would exert a ( Read more... )

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Climate Change Deniers Present Graphic Description Of What Earth Must Look Like For Them To Believe

From The Onion, not the GOP. Maybe next week....

Figuring the odds of Earth's global hot streak
First, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration calculates global average temperature going back to 1880. That's 135 years. So if no other forces were in play and temperatures last year were totally at random, then the odds of 2014 being the warmest on record are 1 in 135. Not too high.
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2014 Was The Hottest Year On Record Globally By Far


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Be careful what you wish for.

Australia has hottest spring on record as temperatures soar
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Globe Sets Fifth Hottest-Month Record of 2014
NOAA says 2014 likely to be globe's hottest year despite U.S. cold.

The U.S. is a big country, but it still only covers about 2% of the Earth's surface area. Our temperatures just don't make much of a difference on a global scale.

The link between atmospheric CO2 and rising global temperatures cannot be dismissed as a case of "correlation and causality." ( Read more... )

... 2014 Takes Aim At Hottest Year On Record

Last month was the warmest August since records began being kept in 1880, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported Thursday. NOAA also projected out scenarios for the rest of the year making clear that 2014 is going to be one of the very hottest years on record - and possibly ( Read more... )

No, You Can't Claim Arctic Ice is "Recovering"
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