NASA Says 2005 Could Be Warmest Year Recorded

Ant writes "CNN reports that a weak El Nino and human-made greenhouse gases could make 2005 the warmest year since records started being kept in the late 1800s." From the article: "While climate events like El Nino -- when warm water spreads over much of the tropical Pacific Ocean --affect global temperatures, the increasing role of human-made pollutants plays a big part."

Comments

Re:Make up your mind, NASA!

[dustmite]

"Comparitively tiny"? Are you stupid or ignorant? Global climate change is going to be more disruptive to mankind than anything we've ever faced before in our history. This is serious shit, and trivialising it by trying to reduce it to a joke and a supposedly ironic soundbite is just stupid.

Re:Americans are different

[dwm]

You forgot another one:

Smart non-Americans have a tendency to speak for the opinions of the rest of the world as if there wasn't a mind-numbing diversity of it.

Smart Americans generally don't give a crap about the opinions of the rest of the world.

Re:Americans are different

[Xyrus]

I would remove the word "smart" before Americans.

According to the last national poll we had, about 52% of Americans are not-so-smart.

~X~

Coincidence?

[Rollie Hawk]

Does anyone else find it too much of a coincidence that this happened while Bush was in office?

Re:Cool!

[operagost]

Wine grows? Thought it was grapes. Anyway, 10,000 elderly dying in France is more a testament to the incompetence of French authorities and media than the weather. We have heat waves like France's quite often in the USA and few die. This is because we send out alerts on the TV and radio, and open air-conditioned public buildings so that the elderly (and homeless -- embarrassingly enough) can rest.

We also have large regions of the Southwest where it goes over 100 degrees F every summer.