Earth's Temperature at Highest Levels in 400 Years

thatguywhoiam writes "Congress asked, and the scientists have answered: 'The Earth is the hottest it has been in at least 400 years, probably even longer. The National Academy of Sciences, reaching that conclusion in a broad review of scientific work requested by Congress, reported Thursday that the 'recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia.'"

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To: Mr. George W. Bush

[TwoTailedFox]

To: Mr. George W. Bush.

Please accept that Global Warming Exists.

Signed,

The rest of the whole damn world.

Re:To: Mr. George W. Bush

[vertinox]

To: Knee-Jerk Republican

Don't worry about the rising sea levels that happened during these cycles. Just because the sea level during these times hundreds of thousands of years ago was at 50-100 ft above where it is now, doesn't mean the world will end. Heck... You could ignore the problem and pretend global warming won't hurt us since it isn't man made. Besides...

The market will sort it out.

Signed,
The Voice of Libertarianism

PS

I have some beach front property in Tenneesse that will open up in 50 years if you are interested.

Idiotic and Evident Lies

[MSTCrow5429]

Every couple months, a small group of "scientists" rushes out, states that the Earth is the warmest ever, ignoring any facts, then go back to hide for another couple months. For those that care to look for themselves, the hottest year on record was 1998, and temperature has held stable since 2001. So yeah, you've been lied to, again, by the enviro-alarmists, but that's how they get funding. A little set of facts to start off with can be found at http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YmFiZDAyMWFhM GIxNTgwNGIyMjVkZjQ4OGFiZjFlNjc=. There is no excuse for the blatant stupidity and carping that passes itself off as science simply to scare people into giving them money. You need to go somewhere else, stop making flamewars about junk science, and go back to empirical observation and the scientific method.

Re:It was NOT just like now 400 years ago

[InsertCleverUsername]

Well... Trying to have a discussion about this topic was fun, but now that I can see how pointless it is I'm really losing interest. Those of us on the side of science might as well save our breath (er, keystrokes). Some people in the mold of G.W. Bush like to be handed an opinion and then twist logic and reality to fit that opinion. Really... How is it that natural selection hasn't wiped out troglodytes that can't understand a simple article due to their preconceptions? Is it because they don't believe in evolution either?