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."

Comments

Massive volcano eruption???

[Anonymous Coward]

Seeing as how I live 30 miles North of Yellowstone, I'm not rooting for that option.

Re:Massive volcano eruption???

[bigman2003]

Nothing to worry about here. That temperature change is in CELSIUS...we measure temperature in FARENHEIT, so it won't make a difference in America.

Thank god we're not in Canadia.

My plans are on track

[waynemcdougall]

Only something dramatic, such as a major volcanic eruption, could cause enough cooling to miss setting a new record.

Nothing can possibly go wrong now.

I'm starting to believe.

[yagu]

With each damning new report and every shred if indicting evidence that indeed the earth is entering into massive warming because of human activity it scares me a little more. As an average citizen, I am trying to help by:

• keeping my hot tub set at 101 degrees or less
• never setting the thermostat higher than 78 in the winter, or less than 72 in the summer
• avoiding jack rabbit accelerations in my HumVee during my 60 mile commute to and from work
• never, never using acclerants to start fires when clearing the trees from my property
• always making sure my tv, stereo, and five computers are turned off when I leave the house
• being careful to stay mostly on the trails when I'm riding my off-rode motorcycle (hmmmm, same goes for the HumVee)
• filling the bathtub only 3/4 full when taking a bath each day

I only wish others would wake up and smell the coffee and be diligent too.

Re:I'm starting to believe.

[bcat24]

I only wish others would wake up and smell the coffee and be diligent too.

Nooooo! Making coffee only worsens global warming!

It's All Lies

[MightyMartian]

It's all lies, I tell you, all lies! It's a conspiracy by the atheistic climatological establishment to make us all buy small cars and turn off our lights. It's every American's God-given right to puke greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. But thank God that George W. Bush, His faithful servant, is making sure that these foul secularist reports are altered, so that we can continue our God-sanctioned practice of driving large vehicles, burning fossil fuels for electricity and all those other things that a proper Christian country ought to do.

Re:It's All Lies

[CaffeineAddict2001]

Ecological catastrophe is in revelations. It must be fufilled so that the lord may return, clean it up and let the meek rule the world while the know-it-all science geeks get poked by demons for their materialistic ambitions and lack of faith.
Amen.

The real question is

[DoctorPhish]

How long until my House in the Canadian Rockies becomes tropical beachfront?

I don't know about you guys, but...

[penguin_asylum]

It's nice and cool in my new Hummer v2.

Warmest 2005 on record?

[toetagger1]

How many other 2005s do they have records of? If this is the only one, it will be the warmest, coldest, shortest, and longest 2005 on record forever!

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