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“There’s no ambiguity about the data,” said Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist and the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “So really, it’s a question of attribution.”

Understanding what specific physical processes are behind these temperature records will help scientists improve their climate models and better predict temperatures in the future.

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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 21 points 5 months ago

climate change. climate change is happening.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 5 months ago

It's a little more complicated than that — El Niño, plus climate change, plus a cut in the amount of sulfur in the fuel burned by ships, plus something that's not fully understood.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

el nino is that bad because of climate change. i think this was predicted.

im curious about the sulfur thing, what changes?

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 12 points 5 months ago

There was an international treaty to cut the amount of sulfur in the bunker oil that the big ships burn. This is because the particulates it produces when burned kill people. They also reflected a bunch of sunlight, preventing it from warming the water.

[-] Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

El Niño is Spanish for the Niño

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