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World Temperatures Keep Rising With a Hot 2005 (We're All Gonna Die!!!!!!)
Washington Post ^ | October 13, 2005 | Juliet Eilperin

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: co2; globalwarming; globalwhining; kyoto
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A vocal minority of scientists say the warming climate is the result of a natural cycle.


Wasn't it a vocal minority of scientists who said that the earth is in fact round???


Yet again, another sensationalist article, which fails to say for certain that human activity fuels global warming. I guess this is God's way of getting back at us for not signing Kyoto...

1 posted on 10/13/2005 12:39:36 PM PDT by proud_yank
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New international climate data show that 2005 is on track to be the hottest year on record,

I'll believe when Greenland becomes green again.

2 posted on 10/13/2005 12:40:57 PM PDT by Semper Paratus
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To: proud_yank

Relax. Bird Flu will get us all long before Global Warming.


3 posted on 10/13/2005 12:40:58 PM PDT by Wolfie
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To: proud_yank

Isn't that a good thing? Didn't I read about the hight cost of heating bills this winter? Won't need to run the furnace if the planet is nice and toasty.


4 posted on 10/13/2005 12:41:22 PM PDT by meowmeow (Meow! Meow!)
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To: proud_yank

So does this mean it will only drop to -29.9 this winter and not -30?


5 posted on 10/13/2005 12:42:33 PM PDT by Spruce (Keep your mitts off my wallet)
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record shrinkage of the Arctic sea ice cover

There is always shrinkage when cold water is involved.

OBTW: Then 1999-2004 were cooler?

6 posted on 10/13/2005 12:43:04 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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To: proud_yank
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.

Wow, 1/10th of 1 degree as a global average. What ever are we going to do?!?!

7 posted on 10/13/2005 12:43:46 PM PDT by L98Fiero
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8 posted on 10/13/2005 12:44:13 PM PDT by frogjerk (LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
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To: proud_yank

Does Laurie David know about this?


9 posted on 10/13/2005 12:46:20 PM PDT by hophead (" Enjoy Every Sandwich" WZ)
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In my lifetime we have faced global famine, an ice age, now we are all going to fry. I'm not that old either. The key word is record. Keep records for 100 years and that negates 10,000++++ years not recorded. PETA and Enviros are looney tuners.


10 posted on 10/13/2005 12:46:20 PM PDT by right right
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To: proud_yank

We sure haven't felt it in Northern California / Bay Area. It was a cool summer with only two short heat spells into the 90s. I don't think we went into the 100s once. Sept. & Oct. are normally very warm, but so far we've had balmy weather.


11 posted on 10/13/2005 12:47:01 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Wolfie

"Relax. Bird Flu will get us all long before Global Warming."

Asian Bird Fru? Oh no, I'm coming down with it.


12 posted on 10/13/2005 12:47:59 PM PDT by brownsfan (It's not a war on terror... it's a war with islam.)
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Asian Bird Fru? Oh no, I'm coming down with it.


13 posted on 10/13/2005 12:52:03 PM PDT by Maceman (Fake But Accurate)
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To: proud_yank

I love your "we're all going to die" addition.


14 posted on 10/13/2005 12:52:28 PM PDT by TXBubba ( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
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To: proud_yank

Oh, the humanity! We're doomed! Doooooooooomed!!!

Now, what's this about Harriet Miers?



15 posted on 10/13/2005 12:52:37 PM PDT by RexBeach ("The rest of the world is three drinks behind." -Humphrey Bogart)
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. . . from readings taken at 7,200 weather stations scattered around the world.

THIS is the problem, they are using local weather stations recording temperatures that are the result of a solar cycle. This is why the Chicken Little crowd is going off their nut - the data is inaccurate and is being hysterically reported by the Algore contingent of the "news" media.
16 posted on 10/13/2005 12:52:42 PM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: right right

Come on now, PETA activists are some of the most rational, non-hypocritical, and non-emotionally based 'people' that I have ever had the displeasure to meet in my life!!


17 posted on 10/13/2005 12:53:53 PM PDT by proud_yank (Socialism is economic oppression)
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Does anyone really believe that global temperature can be accurately determined to within 1/2 of a degree?
18 posted on 10/13/2005 12:57:10 PM PDT by Prokopton
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Root for global warming. My mother-in-law lives in a low-lying part of Florida, and I'd love to see her slowly sink beneath the waves.

(Nah. Who am I kidding? Even the crabs would throw her back.)


19 posted on 10/13/2005 1:01:08 PM PDT by Kiss Me Hardy
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To: Mike Darancette

Breathe in, breathe out; wax on, wax off.


20 posted on 10/13/2005 1:02:30 PM PDT by Old Professer (Fix the problem, not the blame!)
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