TyroneSlothrop
Diamond Member
- Banned
- #681
Record Warmth `Almost Certainly' Due to Humans, Scientists Say
January 25, 2016 — 5:00 AM EST
Follow Bloomber
Odds of heat records occurring naturally may be 1 in 170,000
![](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fassets.bwbx.io%2Fimages%2FiGXulN03P0cY%2Fv1%2F190x-1.jpg&hash=b403008cce1ec89bf32a2ffd6ea044c5)
The odds are “vanishingly small” that recent years of record warmth aren’t due to human emissions of greenhouse gases, researchers in the U.S. and Germany said, adding to pressure on world governments to cut back on fossil fuel use.
Thirteen of the 15 warmest years ever recorded were registered through 2014, the researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, or PIK, said Monday in the journal Nature. The odds of that occurring naturally range from one in 5,000 to one in 170,000, they wrote. Data showing 2015 is the warmest year ever were published after their study was completed, and would make the odds even slimmer, PIK said in an e-mailed statement.
January 25, 2016 — 5:00 AM EST
Follow Bloomber
Odds of heat records occurring naturally may be 1 in 170,000
- 195 governments aim to restrict warming by curbing emissions
-
![](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fassets.bwbx.io%2Fimages%2FiGXulN03P0cY%2Fv1%2F190x-1.jpg&hash=b403008cce1ec89bf32a2ffd6ea044c5)
The odds are “vanishingly small” that recent years of record warmth aren’t due to human emissions of greenhouse gases, researchers in the U.S. and Germany said, adding to pressure on world governments to cut back on fossil fuel use.
Thirteen of the 15 warmest years ever recorded were registered through 2014, the researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, or PIK, said Monday in the journal Nature. The odds of that occurring naturally range from one in 5,000 to one in 170,000, they wrote. Data showing 2015 is the warmest year ever were published after their study was completed, and would make the odds even slimmer, PIK said in an e-mailed statement.