The Top Ten Hottest Years Since Meteorological Records Have Been Kept:
- 2005
- 2007
- 2009
- 1998 (hey, how’d that get in here?)
- 2002
- 2003
- 2006
- 2004
- 2001
- 2008
Noticing a trend? No? Maybe this NY Times infographic might help:
The first six months of 2010 have already cinched this year taking the #1 spot on this list.
You might like the NYT article that graph came from. It’s actually about how Congress and the Obama Administration are avoiding bringing up the climate bill that desperately needs passing. This Orion Magazine article by author Bill McKibben is even a little more pointed.
And for the denialists among you, a different Top Ten List: Ten Key Indicators That Global Warming is Undeniable. Stick that in your teabag and drink it.
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It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
