Friday October 14, 2005

Year 2005 to be hottest on record

slashdot.org -> washingtonpost.com :

New international climate data show that 2005 is on track to be the hottest year on record, continuing a 25-year trend of rising global temperatures. The new analysis comes as government and independent scientists are reporting other dramatic signs of global warming, such as the record shrinkage of the Arctic sea ice cover and unprecedented high ocean temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico.

Many climatologists, along with policymakers in a number of countries, believe the rapid temperature rise over the past 50 years is heavily driven by the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities that have spewed carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse gases" into the atmosphere.

Global temperatures this year are about 1.36 degrees Fahrenheit (0.75 Celsius) above the average between 1950 and 1980. In 1998 it was 1.28 degrees Fahrenheit (0.71 Celsius) above that 30-year average. The Earth is warming more in the Northern Hemisphere, where the average 2005 temperature was two-tenths of a degree above the 1998 level.

- This story is also on the front page of today's Straits Times, Singapore's national newspaper.

See also :

1. Arctic meltdown = oil, shipping & fish

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