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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.
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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.”
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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.
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