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2007 was hot: set to become one of US top 10 warmest years

Posted Dec 16, 2007 at 09:59AM by Isaac C. Listed in: Global Warming, Weather Tags: global warming
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2007: one of the US' warmest years - Image 1 


Felt a little hot under the collar this year? Well, it wasn't just you - this year really was hot; marked by droughts, heat waves and floods. It's warm enough to be included in one of the US' top 10 warmest years since 1895.

The records are still waiting for the last few weeks of 2007 to pass before the National Climatic Data Center can include 2007 in the top 10 warmest years in the US. It's also worth noting that seven of the eight warmest years on the globe are between and includes 2001 and 2007.

The average temperature this year in the US is near 54.3 degrees Fahrenheit. This year saw droughts in the Southeast and Western US and contributed to an active wildfire season. Nine million acres of wood turned to ash this year.

This brings should serve as a cautionary tale to the world's increasing susceptibility to global warming. On the bright side, it was a great year to get a tan.

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   by Orlyeh - 2007-12-16
 » What
And yet it wasn't the hottest, despite having more CO2 than ever...

alarmism at its finest

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   by kingtoid - 2007-12-19
 » Agreed...
If this is not the hottest year and espescially since the hottest year was 113 years ago this means we are experiencing a global cooling.


   Re: gtauk - 2007-12-20
 » global warming-cooling...?
the clue is in the name "global" which means the temperature of the whole world increasing/decreasing not just bloody america

   Re: kingtoid - 2007-12-21
 » Yes everybody knows that...
but the Earth is not experiencing anything abnormal. It is just coming out of an ice age, and eventually it will go back into another, just as before.

Al Gore probably won't tell you this but if you don't believe it just look at some rock samples from the seafloor. It is quite easy to see that the Earth has undergone numerours iceages and even many polar reversals or (changes in the poles [example: north and south pole] the same poles that cause the aurora borealis and which protect the earth from solar flares with the projected EM field) for those of you who no little about earth science.

Back on topic, I myself feel compeled to say that there is a global cooling. This is because last year all of december and even christmas eve it was 70 degrees F ( 21C for those of you who are not american/english) at night time and about 80 during the day. This year it was more like 40 F at night ( 4C).

Oh and one more thing. If you believe that CO2 and other gasses such as methane cause an area to get hotter, consider this. Where I live it tops out at around 110 in the summer. Where I live also has up until two years ago the worst air quality in the US and maybe even the world. You can see the haze in layers during the summer. I live at about the same lattitude as Death Valley and about 100 miles away ( probably around 180 Km for the rest of you). Death Valley has much better air quality, neatly no haze, yet it regularly reaches 140 F in the summer. Explain that using global warming, oh I mean, Global Climate Change. The theory with greenhouse gasses is bust.


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