Meanwhile, planet earth
by digby
While we were all watching Donald Trump demonstrate the massive size of his big swinging “hands” on national television, this happened:
The temperature of the lowest section of the atmosphere hit its highest level on record in February, as estimated by weather satellites.
The planet was 0.83 degrees Celsius warmer than the long-term average, according to Roy Spencer, research scientist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, who worked with John Christy to develop the original analysis of satellite-derived global temperatures.
The February reading is remarkable in that it rose almost 0.3 degrees from the warmest level in January on record, established last month. Incredibly, land areas outside the tropics in the Northern Hemisphere were a “whopping” 1.46 degrees C above average, 0.5 degrees above any previous monthly anomaly, Spencer said.
The record-setting February reading represents an inconvenient data point for those that claim the Earth isn’t warming.
You’ll note that this phenomenon is completely absent from our political discussion.
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