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1) Units are not given in the original AP article - and your own source shows that temperatures rose 1.5F over the 1950 - 1980 average. 2) Also from your own s
by dashundchen 7y ago
1) Units are not given in the original AP article - and your own source shows that temperatures rose 1.5F over the 1950 - 1980 average.
2) Also from your own source of NASA, the end of the last ice age saw a global temperature increase of "4 to 7 degrees C over 5000 years"
Does that not make you wonder if 0.83C in 30(!) years is an extremely accelerated rate?
- Udik 7y agoI have literally just quoted the original article and the current data. I didn't state any opinion but apparently this is enough for people to disagree. I think it is interesting in itself to read predictions made thirty years ago for the next thirty years and compare them with actual data. What I get from it is that the analysis was fundamentally correct- temperatures have kept increasing; but I also see a tendency to overconfidence and exaggeration: the source says that the most conservative estimates put the warming by 2018 between 1 and 7 degrees- even if it's Fahrenheit it literally means that we're at the lower end of the "most conservative estimates".