Posted on 10/13/2005 12:39:31 PM PDT by proud_yank
New international climate data show that 2005 is on track to be the hottest year on record, continuing a 25-year trend of rising global temperatures.
Climatologists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies calculated the record-breaking global average temperature, which now surpasses 1998's record by a tenth of a degree Fahrenheit, from readings taken at 7,200 weather stations scattered around the world.
The new analysis comes as government and independent scientists are reporting other dramatic signs of global warming, such as the record shrinkage of the Arctic sea ice cover and unprecedented high ocean temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico.
Late last month, a team of University of Colorado and NASA scientists announced that the Arctic sea ice cap shrank this summer to 200 million square miles, 500,000 square miles less than its average area between 1979 and 2000. And a scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration determined that sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico were higher in August than at any time since 1890, which may have contributed to the intense hurricanes that struck the region this year.
"At this point, people shouldn't be surprised this is happening," said Goddard atmospheric scientist David Rind, noting that 2002, 2003 and 2004 were among the warmest years on record.
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Nah, The solar radiation increase (biggest increase in 1000 years) has nothing to do with the rising global temperature increase...\sarc
LOL! Bird Flu,,,,,I don't own a bird :), however, I wish some of these idiot pigeons would come down with the bird flu and die off!
Just have a desired result and use the data required to show it through selective usage.
It's been fairly nice around here. I won't miss bitter cold PA winters....
It's actually starting to cool off down here in Georgia. I was in Virginia earlier in the week and it was noticeably cooler than just 6 weeks ago. I'm heading to Austria in a week or so and I'll let you know what I find. I haven't been there for a good six months.
Funny, report is published before the last seasonal temperatures are registered.
Hey somebody, anybody. Please turn down the Sun.
HA HA HA! Very funny!
Gullah bull-snot warning!
The Farmers Almanac is predicting a colder than average winter for the NE. It's a vicious cycle. The warmer it is the colder it gets, which means that we burn more fuel for heat which increases global warming which means we have colder winters so we burn more fuel......
Time for the scientist to demand billions to study the effect of global warming. They have used up all the funds to study cows farting.
Gullah bull-snot warning!
Gullah bull-snot warning!
Quick! Let's get hysterical, read books by liberals who are not experts on that field, and purposfully tank our economy! We must do this before it's too late!
And this, I assume, will explain why my wife just put the down comforter on our bed in mid-October in Annapolis? I can remember years when that didn't happen until well into November.
You're right, 'SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE!!!!!!!'
I love when these twits go on the rants of 'Im concerned, its warmer than it was last year.' or 'were getting mroe rain', to describe something that occurs on a geological time scale.
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