whooooo, it's getting sooo hot soooo fast:
"It was never supposed to be a trick question. Which year is the hottest on record? Depending where one looks, there are three different answers: 2006, 1998 or 1934. Until last week, the answer was supposed to be 2006, but it might have been 1998. Now, citing corrections of faulty data, NASA says it was actually 1934. The National Climactic Data Center disagrees; it still says 1998.
The differences are a matter of tenths of a degree Celsius, which might seem to diminish the significance of the corrections. Except that unusually warm years in the 1920s, 1930s and 1950s are themselves only a few tenths of a degree Celsius away from the purportedly dangerous hot temperatures of the present. Only one thing is certain: The political debate over global warming has rushed far ahead of the science. ...
Here's another hysteric, The Washington Post, in January: 'Last year was the warmest in the continental United States in the past 112 years,' read its front-page story, 'capping a nine-year warming streak 'unprecedented in the historical record' that was driven in part by the burning of fossil fuels, the government reported yesterday.' Funny, but we thought 'unprecedented' would require an absence of, well, precedents, such as the 1920s and 1930s. These years were similarly warm decades, like the present.'"
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/...RIAL/108150004
That's scary!