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Today is Monday, Jan. 20,
the 20th day of 2020. There
are 346 days left in the year.
MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 2020
LOCAL
Global temperatures
Earth had its hottest decade on record
■ 2010s averaged
58.4 degrees, 1.4
degrees higher
than 20th century
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On Jan. 20, 2001, George
Walker Bush became Amer-
ica’s 43rd president after
one of the most turbulent
elections in U.S. history.
ON THIS DATE
In 1801, Secretary of State
John Marshall was nomi-
nated by President John
Adams to be chief justice of
the United States (he was
sworn in on Feb. 4, 1801).
In 1937, President Franklin
D. Roosevelt became the
fi rst chief executive to be
inaugurated on Jan. 20
instead of March 4.
In 1942, Nazi offi cials
held the notorious Wannsee
conference, during which
they arrived at their “fi nal
solution” that called for
exterminating Europe’s
Jews.
In 1981, Iran released 52
Americans it had held hos-
tage for 444 days, minutes
after the presidency had
passed from Jimmy Carter
to Ronald Reagan.
In 2003, Secretary of
State Colin Powell, faced
with stiff resistance and
calls to go slow, bluntly told
the Security Council that the
U.N. “must not shrink” from
its responsibility to disarm
Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
In 2007, Sen. Hillary
Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.,
launched her fi rst campaign
for the White House, saying
in a videotaped message on
her website: “I’m in, and I’m
in to win.”
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WASHINGTON — The
decade that just ended was
by far the hottest ever mea-
sured on Earth, capped off
by the second-warmest year
on record, two U.S. agencies
reported Wednesday. And
scientists said they see no
end to the way man-made
climate change keeps shat-
tering records.
“This is real. This is hap-
pening,” Gavin Schmidt,
director of NASA’s Goddard
Institute for Space Studies,
said at the close of a decade
plagued by raging wildfi res,
melting ice and extreme
weather that researchers
have repeatedly tied to hu-
man activity.
The 2010s averaged 58.4
degrees Fahrenheit (14.7
degrees Celsius) worldwide,
or 1.4 degrees (0.8 C) higher
than the 20th century aver-
age and more than one-third
of a degree (one-fi fth of a
degree C) warmer than the
previous decade, which had
been the hottest on record,
according to the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
The decade had eight of the
10 hottest years on record.
The only other years in the
top 10 were 2005 and 1998.
NASA and NOAA also
calculated that 2019 was the
second-hottest year in the
140 years of record-keeping.
Five other global teams of
monitoring scientists agreed,
based on temperature read-
ings taken on Earth’s sur-
face, while various satellite-
based measurements said
it was anywhere from the
hottest year on record to the
third-hottest.
Several scientists said the
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Whatever people in gen-
eral do not understand, they
are always prepared to dis-
like; the incomprehensible
is always the obnoxious.”
— Letitia Landon,
English poet
the American Meteorological
Society convention in Boston,
where last weekend it was
so warm he went jogging in
shorts and a T-shirt. Boston
had its hottest January day
on Sunday, at 74 degrees,
which is 2 degrees warmer
than the old record.
“It’s sobering to think that
we might be breaking global
temperature records in quick
succession,” said Georgia
Tech climate scientist Kim
Cobb. “2020 is off to a horri-
fying climate start, and I fear
what the rest of the year will
bring to our doorsteps.”
NASA’s Schmidt said that
overall, Earth is now about
1.2 degrees C (nearly 2.2 F)
hotter since the beginning of
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coming years will be even
hotter, knocking these years
out of the record books.
“If you think you’ve heard
this story before, you haven’t
seen anything yet. This is go-
ing to be part of what we see
every year until we stabilize
greenhouse gases” from the
burning of coal, oil and gas,
said Schmidt, who was at
the industrial age, a number
that is important because in
2015 global leaders adopted
a goal of preventing 1.5 C
(2.7 F) of warming since the
rise of big industry in the
mid-to-late 1800s. He said
that shows the global goal
can’t be achieved. (NOAA
and the World Meteoro-
logical Organization put the
warming since the dawn of
industry slightly lower.)
“We have strong human-
induced global warming,”
said Friederike Otto, a
climate scientist at the Uni-
versity of Oxford. “What we
observe here is exactly what
our physical understanding
tells us to expect and there is
no other explanation.”
Other explanations that
rely on natural causes —
extra heat from the sun,
more refl ection of sunlight
because of volcanic particles
in atmosphere, and just
random climate variations
— “are all much too small to
explain the long-term trend,”
Princeton University climate
scientist Michael Oppen-
heimer said.
Oregon
■ Oregon enters
legal battle with
12 other states
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AP File Photo/Ajit Solanki
Boys on their way to play cricket walk through a dried patch of Chandola Lake in Ahmadabad, India. The decade
that just ended was by far the hottest ever measured on Earth, capped off by the second-warmest year on record,
NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Wednesday.
SALEM — About 21,800
Oregonians risk losing
government benefi ts to help
them buy food if a proposed
federal rule goes into effect
in April.
To prevent that, Oregon
Attorney General Ellen
Rosenblum has joined with
more than a dozen other
states to sue the U.S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture and U.S.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny
Perdue to block the rule’s
implementation, her offi ce
said Thursday.
Since the mid-1990s, the
federal government has said
adults who are unemployed,
younger than 50 and have no
disability or children would
get cut off from food stamps
after three months if they
don’t get a job or engage in
job training.
But Congress allowed
states to extend those ben-
efi ts in areas where the state
could show it was tough to
fi nd a job.
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The Trump administra-
tion has now proposed
“signifi cantly limiting the
state’s discretion” to provide
extended food stamp ben-
efi ts, either through waivers
by area or through indi-
vidual exemptions, the state
attorneys general say.
The states suing the admin-
istration are asking the rule
be enjoined from going into
effect and declared unlawful.
In the lawsuit, the attor-
neys general say the Supple-
mental Nutrition Assistance
Program, referred to as
SNAP and more commonly
known as food stamps, “has
long been the country’s
primary weapon against
hunger and an important
safety net for low-income
Americans.”
The program helps feed
about 586,000 people in
Oregon, according to a
declaration in the lawsuit
by Daniel Haun, director of
self-suffi ciency programs at
the Oregon Department of
Human Services.
Of that group, about
21,800 could be impacted by
the rule change proposed by
the federal government.
“The food stamp program
… has helped vulnerable Or-
egonians for over 40 years,”
Rosenblum said in a state-
ment Thursday. “It is hard
to fathom why the federal
government wants to punish
thousands of adults in some
of the most employment-
impacted areas of our state
— people who may not be
able to fi nd jobs — by taking
away their access to food.”
In 2019, the state received
waivers for 23 counties and
seven reservations, Haun
said. Under the rule change,
only six counties would
get the waivers that allow
residents to be eligible for
benefi ts beyond the standard
three months.
The typical person who
could be affected by the
impending rule — 18- to
49-year-olds with no
dependents or disabilities
— receives $166 to $186 in
food assistance each month,
Haun said.
Recipients can include
young adults transitioning
out of foster care, veterans
and survivorsbof domestic
violence. Some can face
barriers to getting a job,
like not enough education,
inadequate transportation,
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