NOAA - Combined Land, Ocean Average Global Temperature In October 2nd-Warmest Since 1880

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Global temperatures last month were the second-warmest since recordkeeping began while Arctic sea ice fell to its third-lowest level, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. The combined land and ocean surface temperature for October was 58.23 degrees Fahrenheit, 1.13 degrees above the 20th century average, said NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. The warmest October since 1880 occurred in 2003.

Changing weather affects "every sector of the economy in the U.S." including recreation, transportation, agriculture and energy supply, meteorologist Richard Heim said. Rising temperatures threaten to increase flooding and droughts, put millions of homes at risk and endanger up to 30 percent of the species, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned last year. "It kind of all fits together into the pattern that we've been seeing in the last 30 years in this warming trend," said Heim, a weather expert at the climate center.

Arctic sea ice extended 3.24 million square miles last month, almost 10 percent below the 1979-2000 average. Sea ice has been declining by an average of 5.4 percent a decade over the past 30 years.

Delegates from more than 190 countries will meet next month in Poznan, Poland, for talks on a global climate-protection deal that negotiators hope to conclude in Copenhagen in December 2009. The U.S. is the only industrialized country that didn't ratify the Kyoto treaty, an international climate accord that expires in 2012.

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http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/sciencemedicine/story/FC5A1D2403BBFBDA8625750600011D94?OpenDocument

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1. No no no no no. Cooler heads "know" that global cooling is happening and the warming has stopped

:rofl:

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2. But Glen Beck says this is all bogus because its cold outside

These figures you site are just liberal propaganda. Man can do no harm to the environment. Delegates from 190 countries? NOAA's climactic data center? Meteoriologists? Hundreds and hundreds of experts with no agenda?? No way. I'll stick to my conservative values and believe whatever glen tells me.

ps - I never use the sarcasm emoticon.

[jpak]

3. and it's UN science you know

all One Worldy and Socialistic...

:D

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4. We need more conservative values taught in our schools

so all this liberal bullshit like global warming will just go away.

[jpak]

5. Now your talking

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