But still, it (and by that I mean the global climate) is getting warmer outside.
The science, from the scientists at NOAA:
With global records dating back to 1880, the September 2018 global temperature across the world's land and ocean surfaces was 0.78°C (1.40°F) above the 20th century average of 15.0°C (59.0°F)—tying with 2017 as the fourth highest September temperature in the 139-year record. The ten warmest September global land and ocean surface temperatures have occurred since 2003, with the last five years (2014–2018) comprising the five warmest Septembers on record. September 2015 is the record warmest September at +0.93°C (+1.67°F). September 2018 also marks the 42nd consecutive September and the 405th consecutive month with temperatures, at least nominally, above the 20th century average.And:
The average global land and ocean surface temperature for January–September 2018 was 0.77°C (1.39°F) above the 20th century average of 14.1°C (57.5°F)—the fourth highest global land and ocean temperature for January–September in the 1880–2018 record.Meanwhile, the scientifically (among many other adverbs) illiterate occupier of the Oval Office has said this about the climate:
I think something’s happening. Something’s changing and it’ll change back again. I don’t think it’s a hoax. I think there’s probably a difference. But I don’t know that it’s manmade.On the one hand, it's good that he's stepping away from his previous assertion that it's a hoax (although he now only "doesn't think it's a hoax"). But he's showing us, yet again, his vast scientific ignorance by asserting that he "doesn't know it's manmade" (it is.) and that "it'll change back" (if it does, it won't for a very very long time)
On that last bit, does Trump think that we'll wake up one day and POOF! we'll have global temps circa 1950? Or that the temps magically will drop for a few decades?
No matter what the orange vulgarity says, it's still getting warmer - the science says so.
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