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2011 Was the 9th Hottest Year On Record

Posted by Soulskill on from the maybe-we're-just-really-competitive dept.

The Bad Astronomer writes "Last year was the 9th hottest year out of the past 130, according to NASA and the NOAA. That's no coincidence: nine out of the ten hottest years on record have been since the year 2000. It's long past time to face facts: the Earth is getting hotter, and to deny it is an exercise in fantasy."

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  1. climate change is not real by circletimessquare · · Score: 1, Troll

    evolution is not real

    the world is flat

    i don't want to think

    i have certain beliefs and i do not want them challenged

    and i believe in a mythical past that never existed where everything was perfect and all progress has ruined the myth

    and i will spend all of my breath standing against simple human thought, logic, reason, and progress

    because i am inert and my mind is closed

    and you should be the same way too

    and i will raise my many many children to think this way too

    baaaahhh baaaaahhh

    rise of the human herbivores

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  2. Oh not this again by jbb999 · · Score: 0, Troll

    You know what, nobody believes this any more.
    it's like soviet tractor statistics. For the 100th year in a row tractor production increased!

    You know what? 25 years ago we were being told that the earth would be becoming uninhabitable, and rising seas would drown everyone.
    Guess what? None of that has happened.

    I fully expect that in another 10 years I'll be sitting here being told the same, and it still being no different from it is now. Oh, except taxes and freedom will be taken away because of it. And in 20 years from now to be told the same, again with no obvious difference.

    Sorry doom-mongers. You had your chance, and you blew it. Nobody believed you any more.