If you are like me, recently you were willing to be persuaded that there was a 5-year “Pause” in Global Warming early in this century. Not that the world was not getting hotter, but that the rate of getting hotter (the 2nd derivative) had dropped.
T’aint so. Science (for what it’s worth these days) says so. I got this out of The Guardian, so it might have missed the mainstream U.S. media.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jan/04/new-study-confirms-noaa-finding-of-faster-global-warming
Didn’t the “pause” seem plausible? Thank the fossil fuel industry for that major disinformation campaign (a “hoax” in right wing parlance)—and I fell for it. Now I know better. Satan was subtle, and so are those folks.