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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Ummm...the dinosaurs are extinct.[/quote]

Due to a massive meteor.  But I am sure you will find a reason that global warming also produces meteor crashes.  [/quote]
I’m beginning to think that climate change deniers boast refrigerator temp IQs. Yes, the dinosaurs went extinct because of a massive meteor crash that caused tidal waves so high they reached hundreds of miles inland and set the atmosphere on fire for years.

But the world in which the dinosaurs [i]lived[/i] wasn’t exactly hospitable to [i]us[/i] living. “The Cretaceous period is an archetypal example of a greenhouse climate. Atmospheric pCO2 levels reached as high as about 2,000 ppmv, average temperatures were roughly 5°C–10°C higher than today, and sea levels were 50–100 meters higher [O’Brien et al., 2017; Tierney et al., 2020]. These conditions resemble the most extreme scenario that the IPCC has predicted could occur by the end of this century, with pCO2 levels greater than 1,200 ppmv and global temperatures roughly 4°C higher [IPCC, 2018].” https://eos.org/science-updates/an-unbroken-record-of-climate-during-the-age-of-dinosaurs

Sounds totes livable, right? Nobody lives within that level of sea rise* and we can grow food if it’s that warm because all our crops will for sure be adapted to those temperatures and weather patterns and no new plant viruses would exist.

* [img]https://i.redd.it/obxpuj2w8s561.png[/img]
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/kf1w98/this_is_a_map_of_the_world_if_sea_level_rises_100/ from floodmap.net[/quote]

The insurance industry is already pulling out of Florida.[/quote]

Useful idiots for the fossil fuel industry will continue to natter on how it's all a big fake hoax and a commie liberal conspiracy even as other industries that are entirely based on data and assessing risk know full well that it's very much real and a huge problem.

This isn't about liberals versus conservatives.  It's about the long term propaganda and brainwashing the fossil fuel industry has done to deny the risks.   Same thing was done with tobacco and leaded gas for decades.  And in fact, in the 1990s and earlier, the fossil fuel industry hired the same propagandists and continues to use the exact same playbook.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/13/business/exxon-climate-change-harvard/index.html[/quote]

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