2005 was warmest year on record: NASA

[FreedomAngel82]

And people say global warming isn't real? Ha!

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060124/sc_nm/environment_warming_dc_1

Snip: <By Deborah Zabarenko Tue Jan 24, 4:03 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Last year was the warmest recorded on Earth's surface, and it was unusually hot in the Arctic, U.S. space agency
NASA said on Tuesday. All five of the hottest years since modern record-keeping began in the 1890s occurred within the last decade, according to analysis by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

In descending order, the years with the highest global average annual temperatures were 2005, 1998, 2002, 2003 and 2004, NASA said in a statement.

"It's fair to say that it probably is the warmest since we have modern meteorological records," said Drew Shindell of the NASA institute in New York City. >

More at link....

[PATRICK]

1. Warmest recorded

I guess we have to survive a couple of millennia to get a good graph.

[amitten]

2. Actually, we do have a "good graph". Ice core samples taken

from ancient ice can track the Earth's temps from at least 60,000 years ago. Scientists have concluded that in that time, the Earth has warmed but never so rapidly as in the last century. Similar warmings usually took thousands of years.

[PATRICK]

3. Exactly, so note

the caution of the government agency in using the recorded temps observation instead of the long term science as if without a corporate think tank weatherman and a government approved thermometer you can't "prove" anything.