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Tenth consecutive monthly heat record alarms and confounds climate scientists
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2024
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It’s not like we didn’t know this for over 50 years. Why act surprised now? The oil companies had studies for decades on global warming, climate change, etc. Scientist have been talking about it for just as long and no one listened.
just to emphasize, it's been known for over 100 years https://theconversation.com/for-110-years-climate-change-has-been-in-the-news-are-we-finally-ready-to-listen-188646
That's very true. I think that such articles are important anyway to remind wider audience about the problem.