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scpg02

GREENHOUSE GASES LIKELY DROVE NEAR-RECORD U.S. WARMTH IN 200

Of course this doesn't match NASA's figures showing that 1934 was the hottest on record. 2006 is 4th on the list.

GREENHOUSE GASES LIKELY DROVE NEAR-RECORD U.S. WARMTH IN 2006

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August 28, 2007 — Greenhouse gases likely accounted for more than half of the widespread warmth across the continental United States last year, according to a new study by four scientists at NOAA’s Earth System Research Lab in Boulder, Colo. Last year’s average temperature was the second highest since record-keeping began in 1895. The team found that it was very unlikely that the 2006 El Niño played any role, though other natural factors likely contributed to the unusual warmth. The findings will appear September 5 in the Geophysical Research Letters, a publication of the American Geophysical Union. (Click NOAA image for larger view of map showing above normal annual temperatures in 2006. Click here for high resolution version. Please credit “NOAA.”)

The NOAA team also found that the probability of U.S. temperatures breaking a record in 2006 had increased 15-fold compared to pre-industrial times because of greenhouse gas increases in Earth’s atmosphere.

Preliminary data available last January led NOAA to place 2006 as the warmest year on record. In May, NOAA changed the 2006 ranking to second warmest after updated statistics showed the year was 0.08 degree F cooler than 1998.

The annual average temperature in 2006 was 2.1 degrees F above the 20th Century average and marked the ninth consecutive year of above-normal U.S. temperatures. Each of the contiguous 48 states reported above-normal annual temperatures and, for the majority of states, 2006 ranked among the 10 hottest years since 1895.


http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/s2912.htm
Andre

Thanks, Maggie.

It's saddening that enjoying a nice warm year with a mild winter is punished with doom thinking. How happy we would be with a cold (wet) year.

I hope it is over soon, the hype.
scpg02

Andre wrote:
Thanks, Maggie.

It's saddening that enjoying a nice warm year with a mild winter is punished with doom thinking. How happy we would be with a cold (wet) year.

I hope it is over soon, the hype.


It will take a while but everything I've read talks about cooling towards 2012, perhaps even triggering a mini ice age like we had before. I think this winter is going to be cold and the leaves are already starting to turn here.
Latecommer

I have a bet with a "warmer" friend that his movement will, in the next few year, turn directions and once again blame the cooling weather on fossile fuel burning, and those damn particles our vehicles are producing. Global cooling will once again be the result of polution. 1970's redux!!

I would appreaciate all your eyes in this since there is $100 in it for me if more than 1 major figure who now supports AGW becomes an AGC.

Personally I think we should be pumping CO2 into the atmosphere at a greater rate with the idea in mind that we will need the extra food supply the additional CO2 will help supply. It increases a plants ability to produce even under drought conditions, which most likely will accompany the cooling.

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