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2005 shaping up to be the warmest year on record

 

Is it warm in here? Readings from about 7,200 weather stations worldwide

indicate that 2005 will probably be the hottest ... year ... ever -- breaking

1998's record by about one-tenth of a degree Fahrenheit. The Northern Hemisphere

is heating faster, with the average 2005 temperature two-tenths of a degree

warmer than in 1998. David Rind from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies

says it would take something pretty major, like a big volcanic eruption, to keep

2005 from setting the record. These findings come hot on the heels (ha) of other

dramatic signs of climate disruption, from the shrinkage of the Arctic's summer

ice cap to August's unusually high sea-surface temperatures in the Gulf of

Mexico, which may have contributed to the extra-intense hurricanes this season.

It's a predictable outcome of putting so much carbon dioxide into the

atmosphere, says Rind: " At this point, people shouldn't be surprised this is

happening. "

 

 

straight to the source: The Washington Post, Juliet Eilperin, 13 Oct 2005

 

 

 

 

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain

other

sets of people are human: Aldous Huxley