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7A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2016 Earth’s 16-month record heat streak ends but warming remains By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON — Earth’s 16-month sizzling streak of record high temperatures is inally over, according to one group of federal meteorologists. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said last month’s 60.6 degrees (15.9 Celsius) was merely the second hottest September on record for the globe. That’s ever so slightly cooler — a few hundredths of a degree — than the record set in 2015. But it was quite a bit warmer — 1.6 degrees (0.9 Celsius) — than the 20th century average. Global average tempera- tures include both land and sea surface readings. And while oceans were cooling off a tad, global land temperatures in September still set a record high, NOAA climate scientist Jessica Blunden said. It was an unusually hot month in much of Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. NASA, which averages global temperature differently, considers last month as record hot . But the space agency didn’t have a big consecutive hot streak because it didn’t consider last June as record hot. “It’s kind of nice to see it cool down a little bit even though it will go back up again,” Blunden said. “It may not be a record now because we have natural variations in weather and climate. There’s always going to be ups and downs but that doesn’t mean global warm- ing isn’t happening.” The fact that despite the end of El Niño — a warming of the central Paciic that tends to spike global temperatures — the world came close to setting another heat record “is quite a feat and offers evidence that global climate change is con- tributing to these monthly records/near records,” Univer- sity of Oklahoma meteorology professor Jason Furtado said in an email. The end of El Niño will “just give us a brief respite, since the global trend will continue mercilessly until we stop it by getting off fossil fuels,” said climate scientist Stefan Rahm- storf of the Potsdam Institute in Germany. Burning coal, oil and gas puts heat-trapping carbon diox- ide in the air, a main contributor in climate change. Blunden said this year is still on pace to be the hottest on record, beating the mark set in 2014 and then broken last year. Meteorologists said three record hot years in a row would be unprecedented. Through September, this year is 1.6 degrees warmer than the 20th century average and nearly a quarter of a degree warmer than the irst nine months of 2015. Records go back to 1880. Consult a Professional Five more states vote on minimum wages as federal wage stalls By KRISTEN WYATT Associated Press DENVER — Congress’ inaction on the $7.25 hourly minimum wage is again play- ing out on state ballots, with voters in four states considering an increase and another con- sidering wages for the young- est workers, even though the states already exceed the fed- eral. In some cases voters are also deciding whether to add sick-leave policies to help the working poor. The ballot proposals in Ari- zona, Colorado, Maine and Washington come two years after voters in ive other states passed minimum-wage hikes. South Dakota voters are tak- ing a second crack at wages, two years after raising them to $8.50 an hour. Is it a slam dunk that this year’s measures will pass, too? Maybe. Even the classic oppo- nents to a higher minimum wage — restaurant associations and small-business groups — are running muted campaigns to oppose the wage measures. “It almost always passes when it gets on the ballot,” said Jerold Waltman, a political sci- entist at Baylor University who has written extensively about minimum wage and politics. “Most Americans have a fundamental sense of fairness, that if you work, you ought to make enough to make a liv- ing wage on. Democrats and Republicans seem to agree on this.” Slight differences Four of the wage mea- sures are only slightly dif- ferent. Arizona, Colorado and Maine are considering phased-in $12 hourly minimum wages by 2020. In Washing- ton state, where the minimum wage is $9.47 an hour, voters are considering a higher mini- mum wage, $13.50 an hour by 2020. The measures in Arizona and Washington also require employers to give paid sick leave. Voters in South Dakota are looking at the minimum wage for the second time in as many years. They will consider a so-called “referred law” to overturn a state law passed in reaction to a 2014 vote raising the minimum to $8.50, with the wage pegged to inlation. South Dakota lawmakers lowered the minimum wage to $7.50 for workers under 18, with no inlation adjustment for those youngest workers. The ballot measure asks voters to choose between keeping law- makers’ approach to younger workers, or requiring higher wages for all working teens. The campaigns are talking about folks like Mayra Pride in Colorado, a 25-year old mother of three. Born and raised in Denver, Pride and her hus- band are considering moving after the birth of a fourth child because they can’t make ends meet on his pay for landscaping and construction jobs. “It’s not close to enough,” Pride said after a recent shop- ping trip to a discount store that sells cheap toiletries and paper goods. “We pay over $1,000 a month rent. That basically eats it all up. We can’t afford any- thing else sometimes.” are Medicare Q: What Advantage (MA) plans? Q: I bent over and my back went out! A : ASTORIA CHIROPRACT I C Ba rry S ea rs , D.C . 503 -3 25-3 3 11 2935 M a rin e Drive, As to ria , Orego n Arguing over words Opponents of the wage campaigns are trying a nuanced approach, opposing not higher wages but how the measures are worded. In Colorado and Washing- ton, for example, the oppos- ing campaigns are arguing that minimum wages should be lower in rural, lower-cost areas. “It’s not the cities, the big businesses that are going to suffer,” said Tyler Sandberg of Colorado’s wage opposition campaign, called Keep Colo- rado Working. “A big corpo- ration in Denver is going to be treated the same as a small mom-and-pop business” in a small town, he said. In Maine, opponents are also talking about a provision in that state related to restaurant serv- ers and other tipped employ- ees. The measure would grad- ually repeal a law permitting an employer to take a tip credit toward its minimum wage obli- gation for tipped employees. “We believe it is time the minimum wage in Maine does need to go up, but it needs to be something and more reason- able and sustainable for small employers,” said Peter Gore of the Maine State Chamber of Commerce, which says the wage should be $10 an hour, with a continued tip credit. Labor unions support the wage hikes and want South Dakota voters to reject the law lowering wages for workers under 18. In many states they have enlisted clergy members and other advocates for the poor to their side. “The ballot measures are part of a much bigger picture and a much larger message from workers that they can’t get by on the minimum wage,” said Laura Huizar, staff attorney for the National Employment Law Project, which favors raising the wages. What’s less clear is whether minimum-wage ballot mea- sures raise voter turnout over- all, or change the prospects for one party or another. “It certainly doesn’t hurt turnout, but if you take surveys, even a vast majority of Repub- licans support raising the mini- mum wage,” Waltman said. And the growing list of states that have raised wages from the $7.25 federal min- imum, in effect since 2009, don’t translate into national change, he said. “If I’m a congressman from Alabama, what do I care that Colorado just raised the mini- mum wage? These state cam- paigns don’t have much inlu- ence on Congress,” Waltman said. AP Photo/Paul White A youth takes a drink on a hill overlooking the city after a long hot day in Madrid, Spain. Now you can’t get upright. The pain is horrible. First, put ice on the back for 15 minutes; repeat hourly — NO heat! Reduce inflammation with ice. After that, the fastest way to get back on your feet is with chiropractic care. Manipulation and therapies (ultrasound, laser EMS) speed up healing and reduce swelling. The next time your back is aching call 503-325-3311. A: They’re an alternative to Original Medicare. 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