2016: The hottest year on record

CNN's John Sutter was in Shishmaref, Alaska, to explain how climate change has affected the world this year.

[bloodhun]

54C this year in Saudi Arabia, oh man I would not survive that.

[supermatti]

dont forget how it snowed in the Sahara dessert a few days ago first time in 37 years

[pauliereg]

Snow has gone South.The planet has tilted .

[wheelswanch]

Thank God otherwise the Earth would have frozen over this year. CNN is fake news and Van Jones is a racist.

[KhaldunQaysi]

CNN should not be biased in favor of Israel

[stevocanuck]

A few days ago here in Canada it was colder than anything... but then i suddenly noticed it got warmer

[nightbandit]

yeah I live in just south of Chicago and it's supposed to be like 20 below and covered in snow. we had that for a little bit but it all melted and it's like 40 degrees now

[johncarlson]

More pollution mean nicer weather - GO TRUMP!!!!

[StruggleGaming]

Towns falling into the sea in Alaska, Miami has sunny day flooding leading to sea creatures migrating inland into under ground garages and low slow draining areas, CANADA IS ON FIRE, but do tell how .01% of climate scientists disagree so that means this is a subject for debate and not the obvious extinction event it's turning into...

[Fnatic]

This summer was the hottest summer I ever experienced. Beginning 10 days of august was just blazing hot. Temperatures were exceeding 40 degree celsius. During the night, It was impossible to sleep. And to think that my country is known for being hard, hot in the summer and cold in the winter. Seriously though, the city I live is the coldest capital city in the world. Yet now this winter's been quite cold.

[joesmo]

Weather modification....thank your department of defense

[charlesbrightman]

Many electromagnetic radiation energy frequencies affect atoms and molecules in different ways. Some vibrate atoms and molecules, some rotate atoms and molecules, some split atoms and molecules. Agitated atoms and molecules are what we call "heat".

Humans have also been dumping EMR into the atmosphere for decades and decades at increasing rates. How come nobody is talking about the human EMR climate change effects? "H2O" in the forms of water, snow and ice like to absorb some EMR energy frequencies, hence also melting ice caps and snow peaks, receding glaciers, and rising and warming oceans.

Yes, things like CO2 might be making the "glass" of the green house thicker thereby trapping more heat closer to the Earth's surface, but it is also the effects of the EMR that agitates those CO2 molecules as well as other molecules that also creates "heat".

Anybody willing to give up your cell phones, GPS, radar, and other forms of EMR being dumped into the atmosphere? "Probably not" I'm thinking.

So, "hello climate change". "Yes" also due in part to human's interactions with their environment. Not just by things like the utilization of fossil fuels but by our other choices like the utilization of EMR itself and the clear cutting of forests. Those living along low laying coasts and islands should move while you still can. Also prepare for insects, animals, diseases to be where they weren't before as well as crop failures in some areas of the world with potential booms in other areas of the world. And at least in part, it seems we did it to ourselves. There are also other galactic forces at work in the process too. But, humans certainly have a hand in the climate changing.

But don't worry. If species from Earth don't get off of this Earth and out of this solar system, ALL of life itself from Earth would be ultimately meaningless as there won't be any Earthling's left to care we even ever existed at all in the first place, much less whatever we did and/or didn't do, or how rich or poor we were, or kind of job we had, or house we lived in, or car we drove, or even how many descendants we might have had or not. Absolutely nothing at all would ultimately matter as there wouldn't be a conscious entity left to care. We failed to consciously survive into the future beyond this Earth and solar system.

[aaronschwark]

I thought the earth been warming up sence the iceage

[miliboy]

I'm all for fixing the climate issues just worried about my taxes

[billhanson]

Right. That's why the Antarctic ice cap is the biggest it's ever been in 150 years even with an active volcano in it. Someone's feeding us mushrooms nutrient rich schizer.

[sporttrolling]

As long as profits can be made... nothing will change the current ideology...Nothing!!!

[samjones]

Cnn i know im hot, you dont need to tell me

[guwop]

Really its cold af here in cali we need some global warming here

[silentmajority]

What's funny the South Pole is to recorded to have more ice this year then the previous year.