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2007 Was Tied As Earth's Second Warmest Year
2007 Was Tied As Earth's Second Warmest Year
ScienceDaily (Jan. 17, 2008) Climatologists at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City have found that 2007 tied with 1998 for Earth's second warmest year in a century.
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Goddard Institute researchers used temperature data from weather stations on land, satellite measurements of sea ice temperature since 1982 and data from ships for earlier years.
The greatest warming in 2007 occurred in the Arctic, and neighboring high latitude regions. Global warming has a larger affect in polar areas, as the loss of snow and ice leads to more open water, which absorbs more sunlight and warmth. Snow and ice reflect sunlight; when they disappear, so too does their ability to deflect warming rays. The large Arctic warm anomaly of 2007 is consistent with observations of record low geographic extent of Arctic sea ice in September 2007.
"As we predicted last year, 2007 was warmer than 2006, continuing the strong warming trend of the past 30 years that has been confidently attributed to the effect of increasing human-made greenhouse gases," said James Hansen, director of NASA GISS.
The fact that those years may have been the warmest ON RECORD proves nothing in regards to global warming, since the record is but a tiny sample of millions of years.
Mankind did not have a population of about 7 billion to worry about during those millions of years. Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, these are the records. The fact that you cannot refute them, or see the problem with them is an indication of the density of your skull, not a problem with the reality of the warming.