The combined global average temperature over the land and ocean surfaces for March 2017 was 1.05°C (1.89°F) above the 20th century average of 12.7°C (54.9°F). This was the second highest for March since global temperature records began in 1880, behind the record year 2016 by 0.18°C (0.32°F) and ahead of 2015 by +0.15°C (+0.27°F). March 2017 marks the first time since April 2016 that the global land and ocean temperature departure from average was greater than 1.0°C (1.8°F) and the first time the monthly temperature departure from average surpasses 1.0°C (1.8°F) in the absence of an El Niño episode in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Overall, March 2017 tied with January 2016 as the fifth highest monthly global land and ocean temperature departure from average on record (1,647 monthly records). The record monthly temperature departure of 1.23°C (2.21°F) was set in March 2016.The second highest for March since global temperature records began in 1880.
Meanwhile in Trump's administration, this is going on:
Scott Pruitt, the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, has said that the US should back out of its commitment to the Paris climate agreement, the landmark plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions in a bid to limit global warming to below 2˚C.Of course, this being the Trump administration, facts are kept far out of the discussion. On the other hand, Pruitt got fact-checked by Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post:
This follows President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to cancel the agreement, with a decision on whether he will do so expected within the next month.
“It’s a bad deal for America,” Pruitt told cable news show Fox & Friends last week. “China and India had no obligations under the agreement until 2030.”
Pruitt clearly needs to brush up on the Paris Accord, as it’s false to claim that China and India have “no obligations” until 2030.And Fact-check.org where they found his assertion to be false.
China and India, just like the United States, have made commitments that are supposed to be fulfilled by 2030, meaning they have to take action now in order to meet those goals. The United States made more substantial commitments — which the Trump administration is abandoning — because the United States, on a per capita basis, is a much bigger polluter than either country.
Pruitt earns Four Pinocchios.
Facts are stubborn things and it's still getting warmer out there and we're still causing it.
Meanwhile, this weekend, science is defended in Pittsburgh.
"Fact-check.org where they found his assertion to be false."
ReplyDeleteAnother case of what he said was true but we find it false because it does not fit the Social justice narrative.
"You know what was wrong with Paris [Accord] ... China and India got away, the largest producers of CO2 internationally, got away scot-free. They didn’t have to take steps until 2030."
"But per capita, the U.S. emitted more than China and India combined in 2015. "
"As for the Fact-check.org where they found his assertion to be false. Fact-check.org where they found his assertion to be false. Paris Accord, both China and India have pledged to take steps to meet emission reduction goals by 2030."
http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/14/wapo-issues-wildly-misleading-fact-check-on-epa-head/