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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://wjla.com/amp/weather/first-alert-weather-blog/dc-virginia-maryland-summer-average-weather-climate-2023-cooler-wetter-heat-humidity-dmv-forecast-records-normal-dry-hot-rain-rainfall

Summer 2023 was cooler and wetter than normal. [/quote]

2023 was the world’s warmest year on record, by far

https://www.noaa.gov/news/2023-was-worlds-warmest-year-on-record-by-far#:~:text=Earth's%20average%20land%20and%20ocean,0.15%20of%20a%20degree%20C).[/quote]

Yes, humans have been tracking temperature since about 1850.   So over that period warmest so far.

It was warmer for the dinosaurs, so not the world’s warmest year ever, and colder for the woolly mammoth.  The earth’s climate changes over long periods of time.  Ever hear of the Milankovitch cycles?   NASA has - https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2948/milankovitch-orbital-cycles-and-their-role-in-earths-climate/#:~:text=The%20Milankovitch%20cycles%20include%3A,is%20pointed%2C%20known%20as%20precession. [/quote]

It's funny to hear climate deniers throw things like Milankovich cycles out there and "oh but climate change happens all the time" as if it's some kind of gotcha and they are somehow more clever and ahead of the rest of us.  But they aren't.

Yes, OF COURSE NASA knows about Milankovich cycles.  And climate scientists know about that, about sulfur from volcanoes and many many other things.  Climate scientists have long known about dozens and dozens of factors driving climate change, to include Milankovich cycles and other orbital effects and those have been part of climate models for many many years.  But even accounting for all of those, the single biggest driver of warming is in fact human activity.

Several years back Bloomberg put together a simplified, but very effective illustration of that:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world/[/quote]

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