The year Trump was elected was so hot, it was 1-in-a-million | Dana Nuccitelli

The odds of 2014, 2015, and 2016 naturally being as hot as they were are about the same as the odds you'll be struck by lightning this year2014, 2015, and 2016 each broke the global temperature record. A new study led by climate scientist Michael Mann just published in Geophysical Research Letters used climate model simulations to examine the odds that these records would have been set in a world with and without human-caused global warming. In model simulations without a human climate influence, the authors concluded: Continue reading...