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Study Finds World Warmth Edging to Ancient Levels

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the is-it-warm-in-here-or-is-it-just-me dept.

Krishna Dagli writes to mention a decades-long study by NASA scientists. According to the research, global temperatures are reaching highs not seen in thousands of years. From the article: "One of the findings from this collaboration is that the Western Equatorial Pacific and Indian Oceans are now as warm as, or warmer than, at any prior time in the Holocene. The Holocene is the relatively warm period that has existed for almost 12,000 years, since the end of the last major ice age. The Western Pacific and Indian Oceans are important because, as these researchers show, temperature change there is indicative of global temperature change. Therefore, by inference, the world as a whole is now as warm as, or warmer than, at any time in the Holocene. According to Lea, 'The Western Pacific is important for another reason, too: it is a major source of heat for the world's oceans and for the global atmosphere.'"

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  1. Save the Universe! by Chosen+Reject · · Score: 3, Funny

    Save the Universe! Just say NO to irreversible processes!

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  2. Those Ancient Internal combustion engines ... by SengirV · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... were a real problem. I'm so glad Atlantis was destroyed, or else who knows where we'd be since we are only now jsut approaching those Atlantean high temps of 12K years ago.

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  3. Re:Historical Data Readings by 99BottlesOfBeerInMyF · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, I'm just so disillusioned by society that I don't think anything is done honestly anymore.

    Assuming you're right, that means you're probably lying since you're part of society. Assuming you're wrong, means you're mistaken. Thus, your opinion kind of defines itself as irrelevant, huh?

  4. I, for one,... by ptomblin · · Score: 3, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our new gigantic dragonfly overlords.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meganeura

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  5. Save the Northwest Tree Octups by mestreBimba · · Score: 4, Funny

    The worst part of global warming is the impact that climate change is having on sensitive species such as the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus. http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ Get involved and help protect this rare species!

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