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2005 Was the Hottest Year on Record

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-more-snow dept.

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."

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  1. This is trivial and obvious by BriSTO(V)L · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Weather records can only "increase" (ie. get more extreme) - they cannot, by definition, get smaller.
    See the "Record Fallacy" at:

    numberwatch get with the maths, people...