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2019-09-23 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
5-year period ending 2019 set to be hottest on record: UN report
[DAWN] Average global temperature between 2015-2019 is on track to be the hottest of any five-year period on record, a United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
report by the world's leading climate agencies said on Sunday.
"Soon as we get done adjusting the numbers, youbetcha!"
"It is currently estimated to be 1.1 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial (1850-1900) times and 0.2 degrees Celsius warmer than 2011-2015," said the report titled United in Science, a synthesis of key findings.

Other major takeaways from the report include that the extent of Arctic summer sea ice has declined at a rate of 12 per cent per decade over the past 40 years, with the four lowest values between 2015 and 2019.

Overall, the amount of ice lost from the Antarctic ice sheet increased by a factor of six each year between 1979 and 2017, while glacier loss for 2015-19 is also the highest for any five-year period on record.

The report comes ahead of a major UN climate summit on Monday that Secretary-General António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
has called to ask countries to raise their greenhouse gas reduction targets.

Posted by Fred 2019-09-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ]  Top

#1 The press does not know what “margin of error” represents.
Posted by Uleck Spererong9442 2019-09-23 07:06||   2019-09-23 07:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Summer was rather nice indeed.
Posted by European Conservative 2019-09-23 18:53||   2019-09-23 18:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Her Performance;
Posted by Dale 2019-09-23 20:39||   2019-09-23 20:39|| Front Page Top

#4 And yet we still haven't matched the Medieval Climate Optimum or Roman Warm Period -- both "pre-industrial".
Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-09-23 21:27||   2019-09-23 21:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Not to mention the Paleocene, when primates evolved.
Posted by Fred 2019-09-23 22:01||   2019-09-23 22:01|| Front Page Top

#6 About the Medieval Climate Optimum: Michael "Hockeystick" Mann finally lost his defamation case against Tim Ball because he couldn't (or wouldn't) produce evidence to support his bogus theory.

Did you read about this in the New York Times?
Posted by European Conservative 2019-09-23 22:06||   2019-09-23 22:06|| Front Page Top

#7 No, but I did on a lot of my fav websites, including this one
Posted by Frank G 2019-09-23 22:13||   2019-09-23 22:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Must have missed it here.
Posted by European Conservative 2019-09-23 22:40||   2019-09-23 22:40|| Front Page Top

#9 I've been feeling a little guilty about poking fun at poor Greta, and wondering how she'll cope with eventual enlightenment and shame and all that. Silly me. Just opened Dale's link in a new window and watched the first minute or so with the sound down... crikey! That's Lady Humungus right out of the egg, that is! Barring singularity or whatnot, she's gonna be hectoring y'all's grandkids in their old age. Yikes. Too scared to limerick.
Posted by Blinky Henbane4449 2019-09-23 22:48||   2019-09-23 22:48|| Front Page Top

#10 I still advise not to attack her. Attack her enablers. Who fly in with private jets.
Posted by European Conservative 2019-09-23 22:55||   2019-09-23 22:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Apologies for attacking Greta. Kids are off limits, agreed.
Posted by Lex 2019-09-23 23:35||   2019-09-23 23:35|| Front Page Top

#12 For you, EC (and for my sainted mom, always impossibly patient and generous with critters like GT (and me, I suppose ;-))), I, for one, will, for once, obey. Tough to take the moral high ground from Joan of Arc, anyway.
Posted by Blinky Henbane4449 2019-09-23 23:52||   2019-09-23 23:52|| Front Page Top

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