Global average surface temperatures pushed 2005 into a virtual tie with 1998 as the hottest year on record.[1] For people living in the Northern Hemisphere—most of the world's population—2005 was the hottest year on record since 1880, the earliest year for which reliable instrumental records were available worldwide.
And here's what the footnote means:
[1] The years 1998 and 2005 are so similar (i.e., within the error range of the different analysis methods or a few hundredths of a degree Celsius) that independent groups (e.g., NOAA, NASA, and the United Kingdom Meteorological Office) calculating these rankings based on reports from the same data-collecting stations around the world disagree on which year should be ranked first. Annual global rankings are based on combined land-air surface temperature and sea surface temperature since 1880.
Although this is shitty news for the planet, it should help put to bed the argument floating around in anti-Kyoto/Conservative circles that Global Warming stopped in 1998. This claim was based on the fact that 1998 was the hottest year on record (helped by a strong El Nino); therefore, the argument runs, the world has been cooling since that time. More to the point is the fact that 19 of the 20 hottest years on record have occurred since 1980.
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Citing a left-wing activist club, for which actually being a scientist is not a requirement, is like, well, asking Al Gore for his view on global warming. You get what you would expect, hot air. The following link shines some light on this bunch.
http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/oid/145
The numbers and the data they cite were not created by this "left-wing" activist club. Rather, they were gathered by weather stations and analysed by, among others NASA. So, is NASA a left-wing activist club?
OTTAWA (CP) - The Liberals' $12-billion plan to implement the Kyoto Protocol over seven years would have been largely ineffective, says an as-yet unpublished report by the C.D. Howe Institute.
The report says Project Green would have cost $12 billion by 2012, with much of that money being spent outside Canada.
-from canoe.ca
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