{"id":20742,"date":"2016-05-18T20:34:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T01:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20742"},"modified":"2016-05-18T20:34:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T01:34:29","slug":"global-warming-accelerates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20742","title":{"rendered":"Global Warming Accelerates"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Global Warming Accelerates<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The participants at the Paris climate change conference saw themselves produce \u201can agreement hailed as \u2018historic, durable and ambitious\u2019\u201dand \u201cthe world\u2019s greatest diplomatic success,\u201d according to\u00a0the UK Guardian<\/u><\/a>\u00a0on Dec. 15, 2015.<\/p>\n

The president of the Natural Resources Defense Council\u00a0said<\/u><\/a>, \u201cA great tide has turned. Finally the world stands united against the central environmental challenge of our time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The image of the Earth rising over the surface of the moon, a photograph taken by the first U.S. astronauts to orbit the moon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

They were still basking in the glow of their success, when news arrived of a sudden and extreme rise in global temperature, described by climate scientists as \u201cstunning\u201d, \u201ca shocker\u201d, \u201ca bombshell\u2019, \u201churtling at a frightening pace toward the globally agreed maximum of 2C warming over pre-industrial levels\u201d, \u201ca kind of climate emergency\u201d, an event \u201cusing up all our room for manoevre.\u201d<\/p>\n

UK Guardian<\/u><\/a>: \u201cFebruary breaks global temperature records by \u2018shocking\u2019 amount.\u201d An event, in short, rendering almost obsolete everything done at the Paris conference.<\/p>\n

The most significant aspect of the February event is probably the speed with which it happened. Spikes occur in global temperature during major El Ninos, although ordinarily not in arctic regions or the Southern Hemisphere, and this was the largest spike ever. It dwarfs the spike of the last major El Nino, 1998.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what recent history of global average monthly ocean and land surface temperature looks like.\"giss-loti<\/a><\/p>\n

As you can see, the monthly global average temperature went up in the last two months approximately as much as it had in the prior 35 years. To be sure, El Nino does funny things, but just look for another comparable El Nino.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Global Warming Accelerates New climate data shows that the global warming crisis is worse \u2013 and accelerating at a faster pace \u2013 than was understood as recently as last year\u2019s climate-change conference in Paris, writes Nicholas C. Arguimbau. The participants at the Paris climate change conference saw themselves produce \u201can agreement hailed as \u2018historic, durable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,6963,369,13899,2510],"class_list":["post-20742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-consortium-news","tag-global-warming","tag-nicholas-c-arguimbau","tag-paris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20743,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20742\/revisions\/20743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}