It’s interesting that the same parents who lament the learning loss during Covid when students had to learn remotely at home are the same ones who insist that, when it comes to education, parents know best.
“… BRUSSELS/LONDON, Feb 8 (Reuters) – The world just experienced its warmest January on record, marking the first 12-month period in which temperatures averaged more than 1.5C (2.7F) above pre-industrial times, the European Union’s climate change monitoring service said on Thursday.Already 2023 was the planet’s hottest year in global records going back to 1850, as human-caused climate change and El Nino, the weather pattern that warms the surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean, pushed temperatures higher.“It is a significant milestone to see the global mean temperature for a 12-month period exceed 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures for the first time,” Matt Patterson, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Oxford, said.The previous warmest January was in 2020, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) records which go back to 1950.Countries agreed at United Nations climate talks in Paris in 2015 to keep global warming well below 2C (3.6F) and aim to limit it to 1.5C, a level regarded as crucial to preventing the most severe consequences. …" — reuters.Com/business/environment/january-was-worlds-warmest-record-eu-scientists-say-2024-02-08/
Gnork 5 months ago
It’s interesting that the same parents who lament the learning loss during Covid when students had to learn remotely at home are the same ones who insist that, when it comes to education, parents know best.
old1953 5 months ago
How else you gonna build a snowman with no snow?
Leonmgd Premium Member 5 months ago
Beats freezing your hands and toes off.
Sun 5 months ago
How’s your global warming hoax treating you?
superposition 5 months ago
“… BRUSSELS/LONDON, Feb 8 (Reuters) – The world just experienced its warmest January on record, marking the first 12-month period in which temperatures averaged more than 1.5C (2.7F) above pre-industrial times, the European Union’s climate change monitoring service said on Thursday.Already 2023 was the planet’s hottest year in global records going back to 1850, as human-caused climate change and El Nino, the weather pattern that warms the surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean, pushed temperatures higher.“It is a significant milestone to see the global mean temperature for a 12-month period exceed 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures for the first time,” Matt Patterson, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Oxford, said.The previous warmest January was in 2020, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) records which go back to 1950.Countries agreed at United Nations climate talks in Paris in 2015 to keep global warming well below 2C (3.6F) and aim to limit it to 1.5C, a level regarded as crucial to preventing the most severe consequences. …" — reuters.Com/business/environment/january-was-worlds-warmest-record-eu-scientists-say-2024-02-08/