2015 Hottest Year on Record
My current favorite blogger, Jonathan Chait, takes great pleasure in skewering the flailings of climate change denialists like George Will. The news that 2015 set yet another disconcerting record creates another opportunity:
Photo: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies/The New York Times
If you look closely, you can see the spike in 1998. That was the source of so much climate-science-skeptic gasbagery — hanging the denial of an obvious trend on the unusual outlier of a single year. “No warming since 1998” became “not much warming since 1998.” Now that even the revised talking point has been left in the dust, and there has been a lot of warming even since the anomalously hot year of 1998, George Will and his fellow science skeptics will
have to admit the climate scientists are rightha ha, come up with a new talking point.
Here’s Chait’s full piece, and here are a few other pieces related to the subject:
We Just Lived In The Hottest Year On Record | ThinkProgress
The Pope and the Planet by Bill McKibben | The New York Review of Books
Thankfully, we have a president who understands the seriousness of the issue and has been moving us – against the full-throated opposition of a dangerously obstructionist GOP – in the direction of addressing it.
How important is it that we make sure this fall’s election doesn’t reverse that progress?