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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. +1 Funny, Insightful, whatever by Random+Destruction · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If only I had mod points and you weren't an AC.

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  2. Re:temperature by kozumik · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Geeze, looks like another idiot choose to grace Slashdot with yet another Anonymous Coward troll.

    Lead Paint? Similac?

  3. Re:temperature by Tumbleweed · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    depends on price. amd 64 rocks

    The preliminary tests (I've only seen one which was not done on a machine built by Intel -- but the results from that one match the others) have shown that a $316 Conroe (the E6600) match or exceed the ~$1200 Athlon FX-62 (highest end Athlon available, with a higher clock than the E6600). I'd say that's a pretty good price/performance comparison.

    I'm actually more interested in the possibilities of running the Merom (mobile version of the Conroe) on a desktop mobo, if that's going to be possible. That should be more computing power than I need, with much less power consumption. I hope it's possible...