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Earth's Temperature at Highest Levels in 400 Years

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hot-one-this-era dept.

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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  1. temperature by mytrip · · Score: 5, Funny

    dont blame me. i use amd.

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  2. Queue up the proof by anecdote posts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll start: It was unusually warm at my locale this winter. That's proves global warming.

    1. Re:Queue up the proof by anecdote posts by TrancePhreak · · Score: 4, Funny

      It was unusually cold last summer here. Now it's average! Global warming must be true!

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    2. Re:Queue up the proof by anecdote posts by Orangejesus · · Score: 4, Funny

      so uh let me get this straight, the earth is as hot it is was 400 years ago, before the whole industrial revolution, back before we knew how to screw stuff up, the earth was naturally as hot as it is now without us humans doing anything at all? QUICK EVERYONE PANIC!

  3. P.S. by deesine · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can I have a pink Pony.

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  4. Editors, please post flamebait stories in the AM by spun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thanks. What's the point of posting a story like this now, when everyone who reads slashdot has left work already? Nothing relieves the boredom of work like a good flamefest. Now I have to wait until tomorrow. (read from home? and waste MY precious time?)

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  5. Re:This just in . . . by Dzimas · · Score: 4, Funny
    "Millions of years ago, the Earth was a great, molten mass, called Pangaea."

    Errm... there wasn't anyone around to name the Earth anything a few hundred million years ago, unless you count the Vogons and the mice.