Re:Record surge in atmospheric CO2 seen in 2016
by mikeash on Monday October 30, 2017 @12:14PM
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Unfortunately, there are plenty of people out there who think it's not actually happening at all. Look for people talking about 1998 as the warmest year on record, the "global warming pause," the little ice age, cherry-picking temperature measurements, and crying foul over the techniques used to transform raw measurements into a global temperature anomaly number.
There is no question that global warming is happening [1]. Even denialists will concede this. They only question the severity of the problem and whether it's man-made or natural.
High temperature records are broken nearly every year nowadays. The last time we had a record low temperature was 100 years ago (though I can't find the reference at the moment).
[1] http://www.climatesignals.org/data/record-high-temps-vs-reco...