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Is it hot in here?(hot weather)
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) is reporting that temperature data collected from over 1,200 monitoring stations in the lower 48 states shows that 2006 was the warmest year on record. Record keeping began in 1895.
The news encouraged media reports that the climate apocalypse was upon us. "If global temperatures continue to rise as projected, melting icecaps could raise the sea level worldwide by up to 3 feet by 2100, swamping coastal communities that are home to millions of people, according to estimates from the United Nations," the LA Times warned. For its part, the New York Times used the NOAA report as the occasion to complain that federal agencies have been downplaying the threat of human-induced global warming. According to the Times, federal officials "had become accustomed in recent years to having any mention of a link between climate trends and human activities played down or trimmed when drafts of documents went to the Commerce Department and the White House for approval."
The NOAA report was indeed a good deal more sober than either the LA Times or the New York Times. Citing a "long-term warming trend, which ...
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...vegetables. In response to El Nino, I have locked myself...95? The next day, The New York Times had a story linking...scariest thing of all is El Nino, which is going to pluck...the Indian Ocean. I hate El Nino. I want to run to the...
