July 2. 01. 7 Didn't Even Need an El Niño to Tie For Hottest July in Recorded History. Good news, everyone! The Earth is still like a car with the windows rolled up, and it doesn’t seem like anyone is coming by with the keys anytime soon. July 2. 01. 7 is statistically tied with July 2. July in 1. 37 years of records, Mashable reported, which is especially concerning because there was no El Niño—a complicated climate cycle in which the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean floods with warmer than usual water, and raises the average temperature across the globe. According to a NASA press release, July 2.

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Fahrenheit (0. 8. Celsius) warmer than the 1. July 2. 01. 6 by an incredibly slim margin. El Niño was ongoing in 2. July was able to match a predecessor with extra help. Alarmingly, NASA noted “all previous months of July were more than a tenth of a degree cooler.” NASA added their data is collected from some “6,3. Antarctic research stations.”The data is preliminary and may change, Mashable noted.

But climate scientist Gavin Schmidt tweeted what data is already available predicts that there is a 7. Scientists are increasingly able to demonstrate higher rates of extreme weather events—like massive storm systems or a southern European heat wave this year locals dubbed “Lucifer”—are linked to climate change. One of the key findings of a draft of an upcoming federal scientific survey was that uncertainty in this field is diminishing, and changes to the climate caused by humans dumping massive amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere are primarily responsible.“Thousands of studies conducted by tens of thousands of scientists around the world have documented changes in surface, atmospheric and oceanic temperatures; melting glaciers; disappearing snow cover; shrinking sea ice; rising sea level; and an increase in atmospheric water vapor,” the report’s executive summary read. The last few years have also seen record- breaking, climate- related weather extremes, as well as the warmest years on record for the globe.”As Mashable noted, the last cooler than average month in the 1. December 1. 98. 4. The good news is that most of the world’s nations have agreed to work together to start dealing with the problem, ratifying the 2.

Paris accords. The bad news is the US federal government under Republican leadership is continuing to do its best to destroy decades of environmental regulations and undermine climate science.[NASA via Mashable].

What Is the Difference Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims- -and Why Does It Matter? Updated 6- 1. 3- 1. Google Questions. Islam, Muslims, Shiites, Sunnisby HNN Staff. Related Links. The Islam religion was founded by Mohammed in the seventh century. In 6. 22 he founded the first Islamic state, a theocracy in Medina, a city in western Saudi Arabia located north of Mecca.

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There are two branches of the religion he founded. The Sunni branch believes that the first four caliphs- -Mohammed's successors- -rightfully took his place as the leaders of Muslims. They recognize the heirs of the four caliphs as legitimate religious leaders. These heirs ruled continuously in the Arab world until the break- up of the Ottoman Empire following the end of the First World War.

Shiites, in contrast, believe that only the heirs of the fourth caliph, Ali, are the legitimate successors of Mohammed. In 9. 31 the Twelfth Imam disappeared. This was a seminal event in the history of Shiite Muslims.

According to R. Scott Appleby, a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame,"Shiite Muslims, who are concentrated in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon, [believe they] had suffered the loss of divinely guided political leadership" at the time of the Imam's disappearance. Not"until the ascendancy of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1. Another difference between Sunnis and Shiites has to do with the Mahdi, “the rightly- guided one” whose role is to bring a just global caliphate into being. As historian Timothy Furnish has written,"The major difference is that for Shi`is he has already been here, and will return from hiding; for Sunnis he has yet to emerge into history: a comeback v. In a special 9- 1. Journal of American History, Appleby explained that the Shiite outlook is far different from the Sunni's, a difference that is highly significant..

Sunni Muslims, approximately 9. Muslim world, the loss of the caliphate after World War I was devastating in light of the hitherto continuous historic presence of the caliph, the guardian of Islamic law and the Islamic state.

Sunni fundamentalist leaders thereafter emerged in nations such as Egypt and India, where contact with Western political structures provided them with a model awkwardly to imitate .. In 1. 92. 8, four years after the abolishment of the caliphate, the Egyptian schoolteacher Hasan al- Banna founded the first Islamic fundamentalist movement in the Sunni world, the Muslim Brotherhood (al- Ikhwan al- Muslimun). Al- Banna was appalled by"the wave of atheism and lewdness [that] engulfed Egypt" following World War I. The victorious Europeans had"imported their half- naked women into these regions, together with their liquors, their theatres, their dance halls, their amusements, their stories, their newspapers, their novels, their whims, their silly games, and their vices." Suddenly the very heart of the Islamic world was penetrated by European"schools and scientific and cultural institutes" that" cast doubt and heresy into the souls of its sons and taught them how to demean themselves, disparage their religion and their fatherland, divest themselves of their traditions and beliefs, and to regard as sacred anything Western."1.

Most distressing to al- Banna and his followers was what they saw as the rapid moral decline of the religious establishment, including the leading sheikhs, or religious scholars, at Al- Azhar, the grand mosque and center of Islamic learning in Cairo. The clerical leaders had become compromised and corrupted by their alliance with the indigenous ruling elites who had succeeded the European colonial masters. Osama bin Laden was a Sunni Muslim.

To him the end of the reign of the caliphs in the 1. On the tape, broadcast by Al- Jazeera on October 7, 2.

What America is tasting now is only a copy of what we have tasted. Our Islamic nation has been tasting the same for more [than] eighty years, of humiliation and disgrace, its sons killed and their blood spilled, its sanctities desecrated."Juan Cole, a well- known historian of the Middle East, has pointed out on his blog, Informed Comment, that the split between Sunni and Shiites in Iraq is of relatively recent origin: I see a lot of pundits and politicians saying that Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq have been fighting for a millennium. We need better history than that. The Shiite tribes of the south probably only converted to Shiism in the past 2. And, Sunni- Shiite riots per se were rare in 2. Iraq. Sunnis and Shiites cooperated in the 1.

British. If you read the newspapers in the 1. Sunni- Shiite riots. There were peasant/landlord struggles or communists versus Baathists. The kind of sectarian fighting we're seeing now in Iraq is new in its scale and ferocity, and it was the Americans who unleashed it. In 2. 01. 4 Professor Cole summed up the differences between Sunni and Shiite this way: Shiites are more like traditional Catholics in venerating members of the holy family and attending at their shrines. Contemporary Salafi Sunni Islam is more like the militant brand of Protestantism of the late 1.

God and the individual and actually attacked and destroyed shrines to saints and other holy figures, where pleas for intercession were made. In December 2. 00. New York Times reported that it is not just ordinary Americans who find it difficult to remember the difference between Sunnis and Shiites: SURPRISE quiz: Is Al Qaeda Sunni or Shiite? Which sect dominates Hezbollah? Silvestre Reyes, the Democratic nominee to head the House Intelligence Committee, failed to answer both questions correctly last week when put to the test by Congressional Quarterly. He mislabeled Al Qaeda as predominantly Shiite, and on Hezbollah, which is mostly Shiite, he drew a blank.“Speaking only for myself,” he told reporters, “it’s hard to keep things in perspective and in the categories.”Not that he’s alone.

Other members of Congress from both parties have also flunked on- the- spot inquiries. Indeed, some of the smartest Western statesmen of the last century have found themselves flummoxed by Islam.

Winston Churchill — in 1. Watch The Boys In Company C Online Full Movie. Middle East — asked an aide for a three- line note explaining the “religious character” of the Hashemite leader he planned to install in Baghdad.“Is he a Sunni with Shaih sympathies or a Shaih with Sunni sympathies?” Mr. Churchill wrote, using an antiquated spelling.

I always get mixed up between these two,” he added.)And maybe religious memorization should not be required for policymaking. Gen. William Odom, who directed the National Security Agency under President Ronald Reagan, said that Mr. Reyes mainly needs to know “how the intelligence community works.”Yet, improving American intelligence, according to General Odom and others with close ties to the Middle East and the American intelligence community, requires more than just a organization chart. A cheat sheet is in order.

The Review asked nearly a dozen experts, from William R. Polk, author of “Understanding Iraq,” to Paul R.

Pillar, the C. I. A. official who coordinated intelligence on the Middle East until he retired last year, to explain the region. Here, a quick distillation. What caused the original divide? The groups first diverged after the Prophet Muhammad died in 6.

The group now known as Sunnis chose Abu Bakr, the prophet’s adviser, to become the first successor, or caliph, to lead the Muslim state. Shiites favored Ali, Muhammad’s cousin and son- in- law.

Ali and his successors are called imams, who not only lead the Shiites but are considered to be descendants of Muhammad. After the 1. 1th imam died in 8. Shiites in particular came to see the child as a Messiah who had been hidden from the public by God.

The largest sect of Shiites, known as “twelvers,” have been preparing for his return ever since. How did the violence start? In 6. 56, Ali’s supporters killed the third caliph. Soon after, the Sunnis killed Ali’s son Husain.

Fighting continued but Sunnis emerged victorious over the Shiites and came to revere the caliphate for its strength and piety.