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If a new temperature record is set for 2016, it will confirm the longer term trends of climate change.
In Iraq a new temperature record for two consecutive days was set at Basra airport, registering 53.9C last Wednesday and Thursday.
We wouldn't be setting a new temperature record every three years if not for global warming, and there's no question that the warming is predominantly human-caused.
It's absurd to assume that we'll set a new temperature record each year, and that if we don't, there's nothing to worry about.
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The big picture is that it's warming, and when a large El Niño comes, it tends to set a major new temperature record, vanquishing not only all other years but all prior El Niños.
More: For a summary of scientists' reactions to the new temperature record, see this post at Capital Weather Gang.
The old dodge of comparing temperatures to an unusually warm year in 1998 to deny that the planet is getting warmer — which is like comparing days in early July with a warm day in May, and denying that there's such a thing as summer — has been undermined by a string of new temperature records.
A March heat wave set new temperature records across California on Saturday, with more sweltering conditions in the forecast for Sunday.
Amid unprecedented melting of the Arctic summer sea ice, new temperature records in the US and a historic drought, the last of three presidential debates wound up on Monday night without Barack Obama or Mitt Romney ever uttering the words climate change.
Downtown L.A., Long Beach, San Diego and other spots set new temperature records for the date -- for the second day in a row.
Second, the urgency of the problem is becoming more apparent as the world continues to set new temperature records.
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