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Tuesday, December 13, 2005

The 10 Hottest Years on Record Have All Occurred Since 1990

Posted by on December 13 at 12:11 PM

Al Gore gave a lecture at Stanford last week. Donnie Fowler has a recap here. More facts:

* The 10 hottest years on record have all occurred since 1990 and the worst hurricanes on record are occurring with more frequency than ever before.
* Animal species worldwide, from birds to amphibians to polar bears, already are exhibiting symptoms of disruption and harm, having dramatic effects on the food chain (of which we are a part) and the spread of diseases that even affect humans.
* Coral reefs, a fundamental building block of the oceans’ ecosystem, are becoming bleached from warmer, more acidic ocean water, and are dying at unprecedented rates.
* Of more than 600 peer-reviewed research publications, not a single one has disputed the view that global warming is real and measurable, but 53% of media stories continue to refer to global warming as an issue that is in dispute.

(via Andrew Tobias)


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To all you fuck-twits who voted for Nader in 2000: Still think Gore and Bush are virutally the same?

no shit, re: the Nader vote in 2000...fucktards.

Hey, it's fun to note that the increase in sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic and Carribean (likely wrought by man) nicely coincides with the cyclical upturn in hurricane formation. Thought Katrina and 2005 were fun? We've got about 15 more years of hurricane seasons like this...

I like the things Gore says now, but he sure didn't practice what he preached while he was in office, nor do I expect he would have as president.

i seem to remember the "comment" piece in the new yorker this week claiming that 8 of the 10 hottest years on record had occurred since 1990. am i remembering it wrong? are al gore's facts wrong?

In her New Yorker piece, Elizabeth Kolbert reported that "eight of the then hottest years on record occurred since 1996." It's possible that Al Gore's facts could still be correct if the other hottest years occurred before 1996.

seems like EK should have used AG's stat then.

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