{"id":3391,"date":"2016-01-22T13:51:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T18:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/?p=3391"},"modified":"2016-01-22T13:51:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T18:51:30","slug":"2015-hottest-year-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/2015-hottest-year-on-record\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Hottest Year on Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My current favorite blogger, Jonathan Chait, takes great pleasure in skewering the flailings of climate change denialists like George Will. \u00a0The news that 2015 set yet another disconcerting record creates <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2016\/01\/hottest-year-creates-crisis-for-science-skeptics.html\">another opportunity<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"width: 539px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2016\/01\/hottest-year-creates-crisis-for-science-skeptics.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixel.nymag.com\/imgs\/daily\/intelligencer\/2016\/01\/20\/20-global-warming-chart.nocrop.w529.h205.jpg?resize=529%2C194\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies\/The New York Times<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you look closely, you can see the spike in 1998. That was the source of so much climate-science-skeptic gasbagery \u2014 hanging the denial of an obvious trend on the unusual outlier of a single year. \u201cNo warming since 1998\u201d became \u201cnot much warming since 1998.\u201d 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 <s>have to admit the climate scientists are right<\/s> ha ha, come up with a new talking point.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2016\/01\/hottest-year-creates-crisis-for-science-skeptics.html\">Chait&#8217;s full piece<\/a>, and here are a few other pieces related to\u00a0the subject:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/s2\/favicons?domain=thinkprogress.org\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<a class=\"clickable\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2016\/01\/20\/3740962\/2015-hottest-year-record\/\">We Just Lived In The Hottest Year On Record | ThinkProgress<\/a><\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/s2\/favicons?domain=www.nybooks.com\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<a class=\"clickable\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2015\/08\/13\/pope-and-planet\/\">The Pope and the Planet by Bill McKibben | The New York Review of Books<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thankfully, we have a president who understands the seriousness of the issue and has been <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2015\/12\/climate-deal-is-obamas-biggest-accomplishment.html?mid=rss\">moving<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/12\/obama-chessmaster-or-pawn\/420195\/\">us<\/a> &#8211; 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