“There’s no ambiguity about the data,” said Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist and the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “So really, it’s a question of attribution.”
Understanding what specific physical processes are behind these temperature records will help scientists improve their climate models and better predict temperatures in the future.
Science suffers from a bias towards elegant explanations, maybe it’s just a fucking mess and we’re not going to find that one single thing to blame it on.