# February shatters heat record world wide

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 17, 2016, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-shatters-heat-record-world-wide/749278 "2016-03-17T17:03:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-shatters-heat-record-world-wide/749278/7 "2016-03-17T19:18:18Z")

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> [@Greg\_Charles](#):
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> However, climate change deniers have based a lot of their rhetoric on 1998, the last big temperature spike, because that spike hadn’t been exceeded by a significant margin. Well, now it has, and the new spike shows just how much the baseline has changed over the past 18 years.

Your information is sadly out of date. The fact of the matter is that global temperature has been flat since 2015. What’s causing the stall? Was the warmist scare just a statistical anomaly?

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