We mentioned it last week, now it's official: 2009 is tied for the second hottest year on record according to NASA GISS. Oh, and that global cooling skeptics have been yammering on about lately?
January 2000 to December 2009 was the warmest decade on record. Throughout the last three decades, the GISS surface temperature record shows an upward trend of about 0.2°C (0.36°F) per decade. Since 1880, the year that modern scientific instrumentation became available to monitor temperatures precisely, a clear warming trend is present, though there was a leveling off between the 1940s and 1970s.
Tomorrow we'll take a detailed look at the character and claims of one such carbon clown. It won't be pretty. In the meantime, here's some background to encourage you to sign this petition and help stop the dirty air act.
- Ed Brayton weighs in on the SCOTUS decision and makes a good case that it may not be as bad as some of us think, including me.
- This goes to show there are plenty of species still undiscovered or at least not described in zoology: transparent frogs.
- Tweeting is no longer the sole purview of earth dwellers. Now there's tweets from spaaaaaccee ...Speaking of which, I'm not tweeting from orbit, but I am at Steven Andrew on Facebook and SAndrewDKos on twitter.