2005 Will Probably be Warmest on Record

Nilmat writes "A Washington Post Article notes that 2005 will probably have the highest mean global temperature of any year since the advent of systematic temperature records. At the moment, the mean temperature is about 0.75 degrees C above the global mean from 1950 to 1990, approximately .04 degrees higher than 1998, the year of the previous record. Only something dramatic, such as a major volcanic eruption, could cause enough cooling to miss setting a new record."

Massive volcano eruption???

[Anonymous Coward]

Seeing as how I live 30 miles North of Yellowstone, I'm not rooting for that option.

My plans are on track

[waynemcdougall]

Only something dramatic, such as a major volcanic eruption, could cause enough cooling to miss setting a new record.

Nothing can possibly go wrong now.

I'm starting to believe.

[yagu]

With each damning new report and every shred if indicting evidence that indeed the earth is entering into massive warming because of human activity it scares me a little more. As an average citizen, I am trying to help by:

• keeping my hot tub set at 101 degrees or less
• never setting the thermostat higher than 78 in the winter, or less than 72 in the summer
• avoiding jack rabbit accelerations in my HumVee during my 60 mile commute to and from work
• never, never using acclerants to start fires when clearing the trees from my property
• always making sure my tv, stereo, and five computers are turned off when I leave the house
• being careful to stay mostly on the trails when I'm riding my off-rode motorcycle (hmmmm, same goes for the HumVee)
• filling the bathtub only 3/4 full when taking a bath each day

I only wish others would wake up and smell the coffee and be diligent too.

It's All Lies

[MightyMartian]

It's all lies, I tell you, all lies! It's a conspiracy by the atheistic climatological establishment to make us all buy small cars and turn off our lights. It's every American's God-given right to puke greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. But thank God that George W. Bush, His faithful servant, is making sure that these foul secularist reports are altered, so that we can continue our God-sanctioned practice of driving large vehicles, burning fossil fuels for electricity and all those other things that a proper Christian country ought to do.

The Bastards

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm sure the Republicans are behind this.

Re:I'm starting to believe.

[bcat24]

I only wish others would wake up and smell the coffee and be diligent too.

Nooooo! Making coffee only worsens global warming!

The real question is

[DoctorPhish]

How long until my House in the Canadian Rockies becomes tropical beachfront?

I don't know about you guys, but...

[penguin_asylum]

It's nice and cool in my new Hummer v2.

Warmest 2005 on record?

[toetagger1]

How many other 2005s do they have records of? If this is the only one, it will be the warmest, coldest, shortest, and longest 2005 on record forever!

Re:I'm starting to believe.

[Rorschach1]

Heck yeah, I've got a 20-amp coffee maker that starts brewing a batch every morning at 4:00 whether I'm home or not! How's that for diligence?

Re:What?

[demonbug]

It's the placebo effect, I tell you! All that ash falling to the ground looks sort of like snow, so it just makes everyone feel a little colder! Take that!

Re:It's All Lies

[CaffeineAddict2001]

Ecological catastrophe is in revelations. It must be fufilled so that the lord may return, clean it up and let the meek rule the world while the know-it-all science geeks get poked by demons for their materialistic ambitions and lack of faith.
Amen.

Re:What?

[Mondoz]

Volcanic eruptions are so 1980. Let's have some kind of impact with a comet or something.
That should provide way more stuff to block out the sun. Should be really cool after that, and it wouldn't take yet another a boring volcanic eruption.

Memo from God's Lawyer

[ghoul]

It has come to our notice that you have been using the registered trademark of our client GOD(TM) for justifying Mr George Bush's actions. This is a cease and desist order as our client has never authorized any of Mr George Bush's actions and frankly considerd such advertising offensive as Mr George Bush happens to be an employee of our rival firm.

Thanking You
The only lawyer in heaven

Re:Warmest 2005 on record?

[CyricZ]

There was 2005 BC. And if the history Republicans told me about is correct, that would have been about the time that Moses was smiting homosexuals and Jesus was driving his SUV. Of course, it was a whole lot warmer then, too, because friendly industrialists had not yet filled the air with pollution to cleanse the sun's energy.

I'll help

[No2Gates]

My wife always complains that I stand there with the refrigerator door open looking for something to eat. Now I won't take her crap, and I'll look around the fridge longer with the damn door open and I can help global warming at the same time. Maybe people will start looking up to me as some kind of hero...

I say speed it up

[ghoul]

1 Most of the interior of America is very lightly populated as people want to live near the sea. Once sea velel rises and Phoenix and Chicago are beachfront land in the mid west will be much better utilized.

2 Siberia and Canada are almost unused land right now as they are too cold. With enough Global warming people can start living there

3 Large no of people lead very inefficient and lazy lives on a number of pacific islands. Once these are below the sea these people will become available for low wage work in our factories.

4 The areas of land submerged by sea should silence the critics that we are not doing anything to replace the oil we are pumping out of the earth. All these submerged plants and animals will become oil.

5 Africa has too many wars but the Sahara is relatiely peacefull. Heat up Africa and increase the Sahara in size and you will have an Australia like continent- first world country. Extra people refer to point 3 .

Re:Let me be the first troll to say

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Memo from God's Lawyer

[geekoid]

I want to see your client in court!

oh wait...

Arr...

[HunterZ]

It's not too late to help lower the global average temperature. Become a swashbuckling disciple of the Flying Spaghetti Monster!

http://www.venganza.org/ [venganza.org]

Re:Let me be the first to say

[Daimaou]

Why is it that news articles YOU link to are insightful, informative, and, most importantly, true, whereas the news articles cited by your opponents are propagandist lies construed to deceive the weak minds of your average, everyday citizen?

Just wondering.

The Ostriches.

[supabeast!]

Well, at this rate in another ten years Republicans will acknowledge global warming. Of course, they'll just write it off as another sign that the rapture is imminent, and push us all to accept intelligent design before it's too late.

Re:Grapes in Sweden

[mzwaterski]

Wine is grown on Gotland [gutevin.se] today

Does it grow in the bottle?

Re:Science is hard

[brulman]

Do you always spell your punctuation?

Question mark?

Re:Massive volcano eruption???

[bigman2003]

Nothing to worry about here. That temperature change is in CELSIUS...we measure temperature in FARENHEIT, so it won't make a difference in America.

Thank god we're not in Canadia.

Re:I'm starting to believe.

[Keebler71]

Anyway, I figure I've already done my part. I don't drive or own a car and I don't intend to have any kids.

Translation: "I'm lazy, poor and can't get laid."

Re:Let me be the first to say

[schtum]

Some people think they can filibuster the apocolypse.

Re:The real question is

[drsquare]

No, the Canadian Rockies aren't threatened, but Florida would be about 1/3 under water if the West Antarctic ice sheet melted, and about 90% underwater if the East sheet melted as well.

Antarctica doesn't have an east or west, because it's at a pole.