On Thursday, 19 January 2017 07:13:44 UTC, vidcapper wrote:
On 18/01/2017 17:45, wrote:
https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/t...LB.Ts+dSST.txt

Record global temperatures for the 3rd year running. 2017 will (OK, almost certainly will) show cooling from the 2016 figure, however.


Why so confident?

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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

There isn't an El Nino at the start of the year, Paul, as there was last year. Thus the world will be cooler. Instead we have La Nina conditions to start the year. Comparisons between years are best made between like to like years - though there are climate deniers who will trumpet a cooler 2017 as evidence of global warming having stopped/paused/was never happening anyway.. Always happens *)).