2015 was HOTTEST YEAR EVER!

[thibodeaux]

That's more or less the headline, on almost every site:
https://www.bing.com/search?q=2015+hottest+year

In fact, Yahoo's headline is exactly that:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/2015-hottest ... html?nhp=1

"2015 Was the Hottest Year Ever"

But the very first line of the article is:
"It’s official: 2015 surpassed 2014 as the hottest year on Earth since the second half of the 19th century..."

Oh. You know what ENDED in the second half of the 19th century?

[TPRJones]

So, EVER = fifteen years?

[Malcolm]

Most people are very prone to amnesia. Fifteen years is pretty far back for a lot of them.

[TPRJones]

Most people editors are very prone to amnesia. Fifteen years is pretty far back for a lot of them.

Fixed. Headlines are written by editors. Editors are not people.

[Malcolm]

Much as I'd like to strike them and many others from the list of humanity, they're still people. Sick, twisted, warped mutants of people.

[TheCatt]

Most people are very prone to amnesia. Fifteen years is pretty far back for a lot of them.

So, EVER = fifteen years?

Yall failed math.

[TPRJones]

Ah, 19th century = 1800s. Oops.

Still, EVER = 115 years is still wrong.

[Malcolm]

Ah, 19th century = 1800s. Oops.

Still, EVER = 115 years is still wrong.

Longer than 99.999999% of human lifespans and therefore functionally equivalent to "the stone age."

[thibodeaux]

It actually said "second half of the 19th Century," which coincidentally was also around the end of the Little Ice Age:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

from about 1300 to about 1850