Since when was this hotter than this

The level of carbon dioxide today is at its highest for about 4m years and is rising at the fastest rate for 66m years. Further rises in temperature and sea level are inevitable until greenhouse gas emissions are cut to net zero.

This article is more than 9 months old. Scientists say temperatures globally at highest level since start of human civilisation. Topics Climate crisis Climate science Oceans news. Reuse this content. These calculations produce the global average temperature deviations from the baseline period of to The objective, according to GISS scientists, is to provide an estimate of temperature change that could be compared with predictions of global climate change in response to atmospheric carbon dioxide, aerosols, and changes in solar activity.

Temperatures in a given year or decade might rise 5 degrees in one region and drop 2 degrees in another. Exceptionally cold winters in one region might be followed by exceptionally warm summers.

Or a cold winter in one area might be balanced by an extremely warm winter in another part of the globe. Generally, warming is greater over land than over the oceans because water is slower to absorb and release heat thermal inertia. Warming may also differ substantially within specific land masses and ocean basins. In the global maps at the top of this page, the years from to tend to appear cooler more blues than reds , growing less cool into the s.

Decades within the base period do not appear particularly warm or cold because they are the standard against which all decades are measured. The leveling off between the s and s may be explained by natural variability and possibly by the cooling effects of some aerosols generated by the rapid economic growth after World War II.

The sulfurous stench and the fire was the original of the Christian concept of Hell. Newton and the Fudge Factor.

Science I go to prepare a place for you. Also, "Those things which are impossible with men, are possible with God" - Luke 18 27 , and " This one showed up in a humor post to the newsgroup rec. It has been "going around" ever since as a "true story" in several variants.

But that's surely bogus. See snopes. A true story. A thermodynamics professor had written a take home exam for his graduate students. It had one question: "Is hell exothermic or endothermic?

Support your answer with a proof. One student, however, wrote the following: First, we postulate that if souls exist, then they must have some mass. If they do, then a mole of souls can also have a mass.

So, at what rate are souls moving into hell and at what rate are souls leaving? I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to hell, it will not leave.

Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for souls entering hell, lets look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to hell.

Since there are more than one of these religions and people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all people and all souls go to hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in hell to increase exponentially.

Now, we look at the rate of change in volume in hell. Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in hell to stay the same, the ratio of the mass of souls and volume needs to stay constant. So, if hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter hell, then the temperature and pressure in hell will increase until all hell breaks loose.

Of course, if hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until hell freezes over.

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