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2005 Was the Hottest Year on Record
Gulthek writes "As predicted, 2005 was the hottest year since accurate temperature recording began in the late 1800s.
This news is all the more interesting because 2005 was not an "El Niño" year like 1998, the previous record holder."
HOT HOT HOT. OK, I know it is not fun to poke fun at the global warming, but it was 65 F in the middle iof January in Baltimore, MD, USA and I was wearing shorts and a tee and I loved it. Use more hairspray Jersey!
Yeah, right.
Now where did that ice cap go?
If "disco" means "I learn" in Latin, does "discothèque" mean "I learn technology"?
...this winter has been mild, but the start of 2005 was pretty cold IIRC. Around New Years, I always see those chuckleheads at football games in California without their shirts on and I always think "We need more greenhouse gases up here"
What, as opposed to Intelligent Design?
Hey, if the lunatics on one side of the field can have their wacky theories, the lunatics on the other side are welcome to theirs as well!
At least the Global Warming freaks aren't trying to legislate that it be taught in classrooms!!!
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
The Hadean Eon were the hottest years of the Earth. It is theorized that it was over 1000 degrees Celsius in surface temperature.
Paris Hilton was quoted as saying, "That's hot!"
Incidentally no SUVs, chemical plants, aerosol cans or overclocked processors were found at the scene.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
No that would be when global warming affects hell and it freezes over.
Well I'm colder than I was a few months ago! I don't know where they are getting their data from but it's obviously biased.
Well, the data shows that people already know quite well how to produce global warning and are already doing it, so there's no point in teaching them how to do it in a seminar.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
It's always wonderful to see that some of the slashdot-readers are so much smarter than people that actually do research in the area. While there among researchers, that has spent years working in the field, are close to a consensus on the existence of global warming and the man made causes of it, the supreme slashdoters can without reading any peer reviewed journals on the subject at all, judge the results as bogus, the data as flawed and the hypotheses as false. Some even come up with new ideas that I'm sure no one has ever thought about before. Some slashdoters have even made their own much more reliable data collection, in the style of "it's really cold here right now". Impressive!
Hey, Iran, is that you?
No GW.
Dont you have enough countries to deal with already?
I live in North Pole Alaska.
If global warming is going on, why hasn't anyone told us?
This summer didn't break 80F (record since I got here in 95 was 101F)
It hardly rains. I used my AC for two days. And camping was miserable.
And we had a cold snap in November of 30 to 40 below F.
Can someone tell mom nature to send some of that warm up here? Please?
It's -47F and I still had to drive to work. At this temp, a stomp on the breaks will crack lines. A quick turn on your wheel will break solid metal. And if you have to walk in street clothes, you'll be dead in 20 min. Visibility is near zero this morning because exhaust from cars doesn't disipate at this temp, so you don't know how far in front of you the next car is. If you open your door, the heat will roll out in under 10 seconds, and it takes 10 minutes to heat it back up.
I think we have a few degrees we can spare, if you want to trade.
L8r
The rise in temperature can easily be explained by the Brad Pitt & Aneglina Jolie mating combined with the fuming of Jen Aniston. "Celeberities. Is there anything they can't do?"