2016 was third consecutive year of record global warmth

I&#x27;m dismayed that the very environment we all share somehow got politicized to death. I wonder what would have happened to the Ozone Hole if it too got politicized at the time, or the link between smoking and cancer if it got politicized. We trust our doctors; we trust our tech leaders; why don&#x27;t we trust our scientists and climatologists? (Is this, sort of, Gore&#x27;s fault, combined with a highly-polarizing media? I have to wonder.)<p>At this point I have almost no faith that until things get dire enough to cause even the most ignorant layperson to realize there&#x27;s a serious problem going on, that anything impactful will be done to stop it, and by then it may be too late due to runaway multiplicative effects (such as the thawing of permafrost methane in the Arctic, or the absence of snow cover resulting in less planet-surface reflectivity)

&gt; the combined influence of long-term global warming and a strong El Niño early in the year<p>I&#x27;m curious how strong this El Nino was vs others in recent years? Was it particularly bad this time?

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After a while we might just see a trend (I mean even the skeptical crowd)

&quot;. . . in 137 years of recordkeeping.&quot;

Things that climate change discussions rarely talk about:<p>1. We have a climate that is greatly affected by the sun. The sun varies in the amount of light we get from it.<p>We have truly, absolutely zero ability to modify anything about the sun.<p>We couldn&#x27;t even place a probe or device within 10,000 miles of the surface of the sun, if our survival depended on it.<p>2. Even if the USA cuts their emissions in half tomorrow, with China and India increasing their use of autos and other emissions producing devices, would that be enough? And how exactly is it that USA spends more on reducing emissions while others spend zero? How much of a hit to the economy does this entail, for essentially zero world wide benefit?<p>How many remember Canada&#x27;s 180 degree turnaround a few years ago, when they realized that conforming to the Kyoto protocol meant a 10% GDP hit?

Where I live (Finland) it has been a shockingly cold summer. All the denialists of course scream about &quot;no global warming, don&#x27;t tax me bro!&quot;. Weird that the denialism-engine works all the way here (from the US). Of course we have our fair share of different co2 taxes etc so when people don&#x27;t like them of course it&#x27;s somehow easier to deny global warming (a logic I don&#x27;t quite understand... I myself are against any co2 taxes etc but still &quot;believe&quot; in AGW).

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&quot;Last year’s record heat resulted from the combined influence of long-term global warming and a strong El Niño early in the year.&quot;<p>&quot;One of the strongest El Niño events since at least 1950&quot;

Next year: &quot;International report confirms 2017 was fourth consecutive year of record global warmth&quot;<p>Not exactly shocking news :)

Title doesn&#x27;t match article and is clearly hyperbolic.

Regardless of CO2, does anyone have a sense of how much heat we are putting into the earth system by burning non-renewables?

It&#x27;s exasperating, people around me over-consume, drive too much, own pets (which are completely useless, cost energy too (healthcare, food, ..), cats damage seriously the ecosystem when they are outside, ..), we are talking of something close to a billion of pets, 20% of people still smoke cigarettes as a bonus<p>It&#x27;s not just those simple acts, but when you consume 1L of gas with your car, you have to consider the amount of energy to extract it, transport it, stock it...<p>It can&#x27;t go well with those attitudes, where residential pollution is about 40%-45% of overall pollution. This alone can be divided by 10, when I see my environmental fingerprint, with my bike and laptop

Regardless of CO2, does anyone have a sense of how much heat we are putting into the earth system by burning non-renewables?<p>edit: I did the math, and it seems our total yearly oil production in 2016, if used to directly boil the oceans, would raise the temperature of them by .0001 degrees.<p>It&#x27;s really incredible the multiplier effect CO2 can have.