Posted on 01/24/2006 1:10:48 PM PST by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK - Last year was the warmest in a century, nosing out 1998, a federal analysis concludes.
Researchers calculated that 2005 produced the highest annual average surface temperature worldwide since instrument recordings began in the late 1800s, said James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
The result confirms a prediction the institute made in December.
In a telephone interview, Hansen said the analysis estimated temperatures in the Arctic from nearby weather stations because no direct data were available. Because of that, "we couldn't say with 100 percent certainty that it's the warmest year, but I'm reasonably confident that it was," Hansen said.
More important, he said, is that 2005 reached the warmth of 1998 without help of the "El Nino of the century" that pushed temperatures up in 1998.
Over the past 30 years, Earth has warmed a bit more than 1 degree in total, making it about the warmest it's been in 10,000 years, Hansen said. He blamed a buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
Jay Lawrimore of the federal government's National Climatic Data Center said his own center's current data suggest 2005 came in a close second to 1998, in part because of how the Arctic was factored in. But he said a forthcoming analysis "will likely show that 2005 is slightly warmer than 1998."
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On the Net:
Goddard analysis: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2005
National Climatic Data Center: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov
Former Vice President Al Gore delivers a speech on global warming and the environment at the Beacon Theater in New York, January 15, 2004. A wave of movies with messages, such as the documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth' which Gore is promoting, swept through the Sundance Film Festival by its mid-point on Tuesday, reminding some old Hollywood stars of the 1970s when films not only entertained audiences but informed them as well. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)
before the global warming crowd rears it's ugly head, i'd like to see what thier excuse was for the LAST time (over 100 years ago) it got warm?
pioneers in their SUVs
Could have fooled me. It was too cold around here.
They have no excuse - according to the article, "2005 produced the highest annual average surface temperature worldwide since instrument recordings began in the late 1800s."
Coal fired jets. Wood burning trucks. The invention of the bean-dip.
"because no direct data were available. Because of that, "we couldn't say with 100 percent certainty that it's the warmest year, but I'm reasonably confident that it was," Hansen said."
So.
With no data, this asshat relies on "reasonably confident" to make this ridiculous assertion?
What a tool.
Didn't I just read that there was snow in Hawaii?
I know. I know. All extreme weather is caused by Global Warming.
If it isn't cars it's cows.
If it isn't cows it's deforestation.
If it isn't deforestation it's... it's... well, mother nature.
These wing nuts can't explain why we don't have glaciers down to the middle of California anymore, but are convinced we're killing the planet.
The earth warms and the earth cools. That's the way it's aways been. If we have one good volcanic eruption it will cool the planet by a few degress and we'll start hearing about the catastrophic cooling.
Some folks seem to gain meaning in life from this sky is falling stuff. And that holds true across several issues.
Watching the "Woe is me" crowd is like attending a sporting event where nobody's happy unless both teams lose.
No, no, no...there WAS data...it was just "estimated" temperatures in the Arctic.
With all the morons running around the Arctic, I find this hard to believe. More like they had the hard data, but it didn't fit their model, so they "estimated" it a little higher.
How accurate is any readings prior to this anyway? Did we have any instruments that had an accuracy to even a degree?Show me the person who claims to know the difference in the average global temperature between the year 2005 and the year 1005 to an accuracy of within 1 degree, and I'll call that person a freaking liar.
D'oh.
Check out the snow in Europe and Russia this year.
Does anyone remember the NY Times in 1979 predicting "A New Ice Age" that could only be prevented by raising taxes on gasoline?
Does anyone remember the NY Times in 1979 predicting "A New Ice Age" that could only be prevented by raising taxes on gasoline?I don't remember the gasoline tax tie-in, but I certainly remember all the trumped up fear of the coming ice-age.
Separately (or maybe from the same folks) I remember the Club of Rome predictions that billions would be dead of starvation before the year 2000.
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