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  • one of the comedians on tv said recently, the way you know global warming is real is if the hottest year ever is the year you're currently in 14 of the 15 hottest years ever measured have been since 2001.

  • The hottest of all was 2016.

  • This graph shows average temperatures from 1951 through 1980.

  • The white are the normal days, the blue are the cooler than average days and the red are warmer than average days.

  • And in the 1980s the entire curve shifted to the warm side and we saw for the first time the appearance of a statistically significant number of extremely hot days.

  • In the lower right.

  • In the 1990s, the curve shifted further And in the last 10 years the extremely hot days have become more numerous than the cooler than average days.

  • We still have cool days, we still have cold days, but these extremely hot days are becoming much more numerous.

  • Yeah.

  • Uh huh.

one of the comedians on tv said recently, the way you know global warming is real is if the hottest year ever is the year you're currently in 14 of the 15 hottest years ever measured have been since 2001.

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