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Going back 40 years of records, el Nino ramping up. We'd expect to see this even without a warming trend.

>>swader+(OP)
No we would not. El Nino makes things warmer overall, but it's never been this hot before, despite El Ninos always being a thing. Acting like this is all due to natural variability is delusional at this point.

>>mjhay+g2
> Acting like this is all due to natural variability is delusional at this point.

You do realise that the headline corresponds to a computer model, right? There hasn't actually been a record high measurement.

>>unmole+s3
could you expand a little on what "model" means ?

>>mistri+U6
How would one approach calculating the "average temperature" of something as large as a planet?

If you were to ask a child in a maths class, they might suggest taking temperature measurements across all of the planet, then calculating the numerical average of all those values.

>>logifa+6b
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Earth

the Principle Investigator here has a Nobel Prize in Physics

>>mistri+8w1
I hear the jury is still out on "science."