2016 Climate Scientist Fossil Fuels 
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 7, 2025
The year 2023 was by far the warmest in Earths recorded history, and perhaps in the past 100,000 years , shattering the previous record set in 2016 by 0.27C (0.49F). In other words, 2023 and 2024 have been much hotter than scientists’ predictions. But why were 2023 and 2024 so warm?
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
The future trajectories are based on different scenarios, such as versions of the future where the world comes together to take action and phase out fossil fuels, or versions where fossil fuel production continues throughout this century. One team found that emissions just up until 2016 could lead to approximately 2.33.6
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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
There has been comparatively less attention to the decision by climate scientist Dr. Susan Avery not to seek re-election to the ExxonMobil board of directors. Yet this shift in corporate leadership is significant, marking the end of a chapter in ExxonMobil’s long and ongoing history of climate deception and disinformation.
Legal Planet
APRIL 7, 2024
C hotter than the second-hottest year to date, 2016. Communities from Texas to Ohio that are benefiting from this scientifically informed tourism boom are the same places where some people like to question and mock climate scientists. The annual-average temperature was 1.48 C above the pre-industrial average, just shy of the 1.5
Real Climate
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
See for instance Benestad (2016). A common strawman argument We don’t expect to discern a clear effect of greenhouse gases on local measurements, and mixing up local and global climate is a basis for a common strawman argument. 679-688, 2016. References R.E.
A Greener Life
JANUARY 3, 2022
set at Magilligan (Londonderry) in 2016 and the previous English record of 13.0C There was therefore some outrage that the Met Office didn’t note climate change when they announced these temperature records. Meanwhile, a daily minimum temperature of 13.2 This beats the previous UK record of 13.1C set at London St James Park in 2008.
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century. 24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v.
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