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2005 Will Probably be Warmest on Record

Posted by Zonk on from the steamy-in-here dept.

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. What registration? by bcat24 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I didn't have to register to view it.

  2. Re:Science is hard by garcia · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Despite doubts about whether or not human activity is contributing to gloabl warming, we still have the responsibility to minimize our impact.

    Why? I have said it before and I will say it again -- IT DOES NOT MATTER! The Earth will fix itself. The human race is not important in the grand scheme of things as far as the Earth is concerned.

    Just because *we* think that we are important doesn't mean we are.

    If it isn't *us* causing the problems by extended life expectancies, eliminating mass disease, over fucking, etc then it's the Earth creating weather, eruptions, whatever to wipe us out.

    Face it, it doesn't matter. Get over yourself. The human race just isn't as important as it thinks it is.