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Three days ago, it was revealed that Stephen Harper was joining George W. Bush in a North American death wish by withdrawing from the Kyotoย process.ย 

Yesterday, NASA scientists announced that 2005 had topped 1998 as the hottest year on record.ย  In fact, one NASA researcher said it was likely that 2005 may have been the warmest in several thousand years.ย  While the rest of the world scrambles to patch together the barest beginnings of a survival strategy, it seems clear that the alternative path blazed by the US and Australia, a followed by India, China and now Canada is becoming the non-stop route to climateย hell.

2005 Was Warmest Year on Record – NASA
Planetark.org, Jan. 25,ย 2006

WASHINGTON – Last year was the warmest recorded on Earth’s surface, and it was unusually hot in the Arctic, US space agency NASA said onย Tuesday.

All five of the hottest years since modern record-keeping began in the 1890s occurred within the last decade, according to analysis by NASA‘s Goddard Institute for Spaceย Studies.

In descending order, the years with the highest global average annual temperatures were 2005, 1998, 2002, 2003 and 2004, NASA said in aย statement.

โ€œIt’s fair to say that it probably is the warmest since we have modern meteorological records,โ€ said Drew Shindell of the NASA institute in New Yorkย City.

โ€œUsing indirect measurements that go back farther, I think it’s even fair to say that it’s the warmest in the last several thousandย years.โ€

Some researchers had expected 1998 would be the hottest year on record, notably because a strong El Nino โ€“ a warm-water pattern in the eastern Pacific โ€“ boosted globalย temperatures.

But Shindell said last year was slightly warmer than 1998, even without any extraordinary weather pattern. Temperatures in the Arctic were unusually warm in 2005, NASAย said.

โ€œThat very anomalously warm year (1998) has become the norm,โ€ Shindell said in a telephoneย interview.

โ€œThe rate of warming has been so rapid that this temperature that we only got when we had a real strong El Nino now has become something that we’ve gotten without any unusual worldwide weatherย disturbance.โ€

Over the past 30 years, Earth has warmed by 1.08 degrees F (0.6 degrees C), NASA said. Over the past 100 years, it has warmed by 1.44 degrees F (0.8 degreesย C).

Shindell, in line with the view held by most scientists, attributed the rise to emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and ozone, with the burning of fossil fuels being the primaryย source.

The 21st century could see global temperature increases of 6 to 10 degrees F (3 to 5 degrees C), Shindellย said.

โ€œThat will really bring us up to the warmest temperatures the world has experienced probably in the last million years,โ€ heย said.

To understand whether the Earth is cooling or warming, scientists use data from weather stations on land, satellite measurements of sea surface temperature since 1982, and data from ships for earlierย years.

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