Climate mystery rule

Ok so apparently it is an article, not a bulletpoint of the other article as the ui would suggest. According to the article, some model made a while ago predicts we should only be at 1.3% warming this year and not 1.5%. That missing 0.2% is whats the mistery, so kind of misleading headline, especially if you put it in a place that doesn't make it look like an article at all. I only found out because I accidentally clicked on it.

The article (npr.org)

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Who wrote this headline, an AI? It being hotter than models predicted does not mean we didn't expect it to be hotter. A better title could've been: "2024 was mysteriously hotter than climate science predicted" or "global heating smashes scientists' expectations"
- Maybe the models didn't place it as the hottest. Even with an upward trend, not every year has to be hotter than the previous and other factors (or even model inaccuracies) can yield unexplained results.

“Tide goes in, tide goes out. You can’t explain that.” - Bill O’Reilly
- "Money goes in, lies go out. You're not allowed to explain that" - first page of the Faux News employee handbook

I just assumed it was sarcasm :D
- I shared this before. The war on NPR for reporting facts in the past years has forced it's editorial team to "soften" some of these facts so conservatives don't get triggered. They receive public money from the gov and all.

We're at +1.5c this year rather than +1.3c because of normal weather cycles exhasutbating the effects of man made climate change. It's expected that 2025 will be back to +1.3c (or so). If it is you can expect climate deniers to be out in force, if it isn't you can expect climate doomers to be out in force.
- Just because we are stuck in the worst timeline, it will split the difference at 1.4 and both sides will be raging.
- Exacerbating? 😄
  
  Masturbating to the point of exhaustion
  
  Yes. I couldn't get close enough for predictive text to pick it up.

Yes. The corporate oligarchy owns everything now. We let the most narcissistic prosper with capitalism until they seized the means of democracy. Now the planet will be destroyed. Turns out greed is the great filter.

Liberal NPR is denying climate change?!
- This is from last August/September so it might have changed:
  🔷 National Public Radio (NPR)
  ◾ NPR is a membership organization. Member stations are required to be non-commercial or non-commercial educational radio stations; have at least five full-time professional employees; operate for at least 18 hours per day; and not be designed solely to further a religious broadcasting philosophy or be used for classroom distance learning programming. Each member station receives one vote at the annual NPR board meetings—exercised by its designated Authorized Station Representative ("A-Rep").
  Source
  ◾ CEO is Katherine Maher
  Prior to joining NPR, Maher was CEO of Web Summit and served on its Board of Directors. She also worked for seven years as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, responsible for the success of Wikipedia, one of the world's most popular digital platforms. She led Wikipedia to its highest brand trust since its founding, navigating the misinformation crisis and global trust decline in media, while doubling the Foundation's fundraising and raising Wikimedia's first endowment. Before Wikimedia, Maher worked on rights, democracy, and innovation at Access Now, the World Bank, the National Democratic Institute and UNICEF.
  ◾ Board of Directors
  Chairperson is Jennifer Ferro- serves as a Senior Fellow for the Luskin School of Public Policy at UCLA. She is on the board of Marfa Public Radio, one of the most innovative public stations in the country that serves rural west Texas. She is also a board member of the prestigious Trusteeship/International Women's Forum for Southern California and Chair of the NPR Board. Ferro was awarded the UCLA Award for public service and selected as one of the 500 Most Influential People in LA according to the LA Business Journal.
  John McGinn -Was the head of Citigroup's Global Consumer Risk Aggregation unit, Chief Risk Officer for Citi's Student Loan Corporation and chief of staff for the Chief Risk Officers of both the Global Consumer Group and the Latin American Consumer Bank. Prior to his time at Citigroup, McGinn worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
  Milena Alberti-Perez-Alberti-Perez spent most of her career at Penguin Random House and currently serves on 2 non-profit boards and 3 corporate boards. She was most recently the Chief Financial Officer of Getty Images, Inc.
  Matthew Barzun-Matthew Barzun is a media entrepreneur, author, and former diplomat. He currently serves as chair and publisher of Tortoise Media, the London-based online news service he co-founded with the former Director of BBC News.Earlier in his career, he was closely involved in the pioneer stage of the internet publishing business, serving in executive roles at CNET.
  Scott Donaton-He most recently served as Hulu's Head of Marketing, overseeing a team of 250 marketers responsible for marketing strategy, subscriber acquisition, engagement & retention, brand marketing, creative, social, paid media, partnerships and consumer insights & analytics.
  *LeRoy Kim-He is a Managing Director of Allen & Company LLC. He started his career at Lehman Brothers. Kim has served as a financial advisor to many well-known corporations in the fields of technology, media, sports, healthcare services and consumer products. Kim was formerly the President of the Board of The Door, which serves up to 11,000 youth annually across New York City and operates Broome Street Academy, a NYC charter high school, and was a founding Board member of Venture for America. He was a Board member of The Sleepy Hollow Country Club, and is currently on the Finance Committee of Board of The MidOcean Club.
  Joanna Lambert-Most recently, Lambert was President and General Manager of Yahoo Consumer. Prior to PayPal, Lambert was the Senior Vice President of Product Development and Operations at American Express.
  Catherine Levene-She was President of the Russian owned National Media Group at Meredith Corporation, where she oversaw the company's 40+ iconic brands including PEOPLE, Allrecipes, Entertainment Weekly, InStyle, TRAVEL&LEISURE, REAL SIMPLE and Magnolia Journal.
  Judith Segura-She is a lead thermal architect and expert in thermodynamics at Apple, Inc. Prior to Apple, Segura also helped build innovative products at Cisco Systems and Spray Cool, Inc. A winner of the Ford Foundation doctoral fellowship, Segura has been awarded three patents across various disciplines with several more pending.
  Howard Wollner-For two years, Wollner served as Senior Vice President Strategic Business Systems for Starbucks Coffee International.
  Neal Zuckerman-He is a Senior Partner and Managing Director in the New York office of the global management consulting firm Boston Consulting Group. He is also the head of the firm's Media Practice globally.
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  Sounds like a bunch of liberal elites to me

Maybe they wrote the headline that way under the assumption that climate-change deniers wouldn't read past it (?)
Of course, here's the bottom line:
Climate models suggest Earth should have heated up about 1.3 C by now, because of fossil fuel burning and other human-driven disruptions to the planet.
Beyond this, they're just zeroing in on variables such as volcanoes, weather patterns, ship emissions, clouds, etc. So that is apparently what the somewhat misleading headline characterizes as a "mystery".

I hear this month the insurers didn't covered fire accidents for some reason
- I guarantee all of those companies have a CEO and a whole-ass board of directors that can be easily found

I can feel (what's left of) my brain melting away

1.5°C not %

NPR still one of the cooler ones, though.

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