2010 is shaping up to be the warmest year on record. The record keeping begins 131 years ago. The warmest year up to this point is 2005.
Live Science: 2010 to Win or Tie for Warmest Year Ever
This year caps a decade of rapid rise in global surface temperatures, according to the team.
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From what I've heard, we have to be careful not to confuse climate with weather. "Hottest year on record" is not climate change evidence.
We may get a few cold years, too, that doesn't mean that climate change isn't happening.
Climate is what you get when you add up all that weather over time and add in geography, so hottest , driest etc yr. is a measure of climate trends not just weather. If the weather grows increasingly warm in an area for decades this is not just a measure of that areas weather but of it's climate. To try and say any given day however is indicative of Climate is wrong. It can be confusing because the two things are not totally separate phenomenon, but different facets of the same thing. People who are deniers of Climate change famously confuse the two and will cherry pick a cold or hot day to try and prove climate change isn't really happening. More interestingly, are the one's that don't dispute climate change deniers that agree it's is happening but still deny it's caused by man made chemicals and pollutants. This allows them to have it both ways. They're ruse is to deny the evidence and they pt. to studies ( almost always paid for by Oil or Coal companies) that either mis-read important facets of the data or once again they cherry pick a piece of data that's in dispute to try and say the whole huge body of mounting evidence / data is all wrong. They want to put ideology in place of science and some of them even go as far to attack science itself in pursuit of their goal.
Glenn thanks for explaining. I am starting to get that.
This morning when I posted this I forgot to write the thing that struck me this time. You know how different things strike you at different times...
Anyhow, its the term "warming" that i am having trouble with. Warming is usually has a positive connotation like a warm person or warm food. It isn't exactly global warming. Its much more pernicious. Its more like global process or human extinction.
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