2005 WARMEST YEAR EVER In North-We're right, the sceptics are wrong!

[kpete]

2005 warmest ever year in north
By Richard Black
Environment Correspondent, BBC News website


We're right, the sceptics are wrong

Dr David Viner
This year has been the warmest on record in the northern hemisphere, say scientists in Britain.

It is the second warmest globally since the 1860s, when reliable records began, they say.

Ocean temperatures recorded in the northern hemisphere Atlantic Ocean have also been the hottest on record.

The researchers, from the UK Met Office and the University of East Anglia, say this is more evidence for the reality of human-induced global warming.

Their data show that the average temperature during 2005 in the northern hemisphere is 0.65 Celsius above the average for 1961-1990, a conventional baseline against which scientists compare temperatures.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4532344.stm

[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. I'm so glad we're right

I can't stand SKEPTICS!

[TrogL]

2. OK, this is getting ridiculous

There's a weather office where I work and I do a certain amount of work with weather statistics.

I live in the Great White North. We yawn at -40 temperatures and snowdrifts up to your nose.

It's the middle of December. We're a couple of days from the longest night of the year.

It's shirtsleeve weather outside.

There isn't enough snow on the ground to make a decent snowball, nevermind a snowman.

The snowplows have been out once this winter so far.

I automatically sent the kids outside to shovel the walks. "Can't." "Why not?" "Nothing to shovel."

This is NOT normal. This isn't even within the realm of statistical oddity - it's right off the scale.