news.yahoo.com — WASHINGTON - The first half of the year was the warmest on record for the United States. The government reported Friday that the average temperature for the 48 contiguous United States from January through June was 51.8 degrees Fahrenheit, or 3.4 degrees above average for the 20th century.
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llanJul 15, 2006
You should quit eating these funny little mushrooms...the only make Mario stronger...
gloomybearJul 15, 2006
Surely you don't think that the first couple of billion years would count has being hospitable to mankind?The geologic data for human-compatible climate goes back at least 500,000 years, and the trendline in the past 20-30 years go way beyond what has happened in the past half-million.
fancypantsczJul 15, 2006
"The Vostok ice core allows us to look back in time. The ice at the bottom of the core is nearly 500 thousand years old.This ice, like all water and ice, is made of hydrogen and oxygen. Small amounts of the hydrogen are a special heavy form called deuterium. Scientists have observed a relationship between local temperature and deuterium concentration in ice collected during periods that temperature was also known. There is no reason to believe that this relationship has changed over time so the levels of deuterium in ancient ice can be used to reconstruct past climate."<a class="user" href="http://www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/watch/climate_change/proxydata.htm">http://www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/watch/climate_change/proxydata.htm</a>
cousinlarryJul 16, 2006
"You've got 13 billion years and temperature readings from only 111 years. That is not a large enough sample to base any conclusions on."Please don't embarrass yourself by saying things like this in public.First of all we have hundreds of thousands of years' climate records, evidence of earth's temperature and CO2 trapped in ancient ice:<a class="user" href="http://www.secretsoftheice.org/icecore/studies.html">http://www.secretsoftheice.org/icecore/studies.html</a>Second of all, these thousands of years' worth of data is all we need to create a conclusion, and scientists did come to the conclusion that the earth is warming and human activity is causing it back in the 1970's.
cousinlarryJul 16, 2006
"You've got 13 billion years and temperature readings from only 111 years. That is not a large enough sample to base any conclusions on."Please don't embarrass yourself by saying things like this in public.First of all we have hundreds of thousands of years' climate records, evidence of earth's temperature and CO2 trapped in ancient ice:<a class="user" href="http://www.secretsoftheice.org/icecore/studies.html">http://www.secretsoftheice.org/icecore/studies.html</a>Second of all, these thousands of years' worth of data is all we need to create a conclusion. There is no "debate" about whether we caused this warming - only uneducated or unintelligent people like you throwing stones at the science for reasons I will never understand.
phonestJul 18, 2006
And the data from more than a few thousand years ago is worthless for estimating what the impact of climate change will be on the ecosystem we have right now. Sure it was hotter 65 million years ago... but there weren't 6 billion humans destroying habitat and overfishing the oceans then. Think about it.
boysranchDec 20, 2006
The year 2006 was the hottest year..maybe since the beginning of time..and according to many researches, the rise in temperature will keep moving high. Every other year will be warmer than the previous one . Global warming is a serious threat to the world right now. We must take action to control pollution and emission of harmful gases in the air, if we want to save nature. <a class="user" href="http://www.silveradoboysranch.com/">http://www.silveradoboysranch.com/</a>