2005 Will Probably be Warmest on Record

Nilmat writes "A Washington Post Article notes that 2005 will probably have the highest mean global temperature of any year since the advent of systematic temperature records. At the moment, the mean temperature is about 0.75 degrees C above the global mean from 1950 to 1990, approximately .04 degrees higher than 1998, the year of the previous record. Only something dramatic, such as a major volcanic eruption, could cause enough cooling to miss setting a new record."

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Re:Volcanic eruption causing cooling?

[c0d3h4x0r]

Those are some big balls you've got there, Coward. Too bad you don't have a brain big enough to match.

Re:Let me be the first to say

[Doc Ruby]

How predictable that I did not refer to the Bush administration in either of my posts in that thread. How perfectly hypocritical of you, to project your Bush worshipping obsession on me, in perfectly selfreferential projections of "irrelevance". While of course they're perfectly relevant, which is what scares you so much, the reason you're dug in so deep and jumping at your own shadow. I'll bash Bush, his administration and his worshippers like you whenever it's relevant. And given the thoroughness with which BushCo has invaded everyone's life, including our survival in an environment in which we've evolved to be fit, it's as relevant as the day is long. Hey hey, you're a total failure, just like your hero, the Antichrist in Chief. And no refunds, Republican dupe.

Re:Let me be the first to say

[Abies Bracteata]

And don't forget the worst greenhouse gas of all: WATER VAPOUR! Myth 4: CO2 is the most common greenhouse gas. Fact: Water vapour or clouds, which makes up on average about 3 % of the atmosphere by volume, and - according to several researchers - about 60% by effect, is the major greenhouse gas. 97% of greenhouse gases are water vapour by volume. Moreover, because of its molecular weight and absorptive capacity, water vapour is 3000 times more effective than CO2 as a greenhouse gas. Those attributing climate change to CO2 rarely mention this important fact. Better start campaigning to remove all the water vapour emissions. Oh wait, water covers 71% of the earth's surface. No dice there...

Aarrrghhh! More ignorant right-wing drivel. You global-warming denier loons are as bad as creationists! The short atmospheric residence time of water vapor makes water vapor a *feedback* element, *not* a forcing element with regard to global warming.

Got that, loon? FEEDBACK. NOT forcing. Global warming is not initiated by water vapor; it is *magnified* by it. In the absence of an outside forcing factor (like anthropocentric CO2 emissions, water vapor will *not* cause global warming.

For those who have the attention-span necessary to handle some technical material, there's a good article that discusses the role of water vapor in global warming at http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=142

Re:Let me be the first to say

[Doc Ruby]

Sure, whatever, Anonymous joker Coward. You're gloating over people getting marginalized by politics, while part of the marginalized group, all in one all-consuming idiotic post. I guess that's the kind of suicidally enthusiastic stupidity it takes to worship Bush. Next you'll probably spew nonsense about how you're a persecuted minority. Idiot.