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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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  1. Massive volcano eruption??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    1. Re:Massive volcano eruption??? by bigman2003 · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

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  2. It's All Lies by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  3. Re:I'm starting to believe. by bcat24 · · Score: 5, Funny
    I only wish others would wake up and smell the coffee and be diligent too.

    Nooooo! Making coffee only worsens global warming!
  4. I don't know about you guys, but... by penguin_asylum · · Score: 5, Funny

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