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HalfMooner
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 Posted - 07/14/2006 : 17:46:40
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Last year was the hottest year in world history. Already this year is shaping up to be even hotter yet.
Despite global warming deniers from the President on down, the heat just keeps piling on. One wonders if Bush would accept the reality of global warming even if Texas suddenly burst into flame. The following NOAA map gives a new meaning to the term, "red state":
This LiveScience article provides some details:quote:
Scorching U.S.: First Half of 2006 Sets Heat Record
By Sara Goudarzi
LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 14 July 2006
01:32 pm ET
The average temperatures of the first half of 2006 were the highest ever recorded for the continental United States, scientists announced today.
Temperatures for January through June were 3.4 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century average.
Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri experienced record warmth for the period, while no state experienced cooler-than-average temperatures, reported scientists from NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
Edited by - HalfMooner on 07/14/2006 17:50:05
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