If that's true (global warming): I'm in deep caca & need to move north FAST LOL!
2007-04-05 06:54:46 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
2006 was the warmest year on record in the United States and the sixth warmest worldwide, according to the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) respectively.
2007-04-05 07:00:52 · answer #1 · answered by johndante 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The hottest year on record? Perhaps. However the record only goes bach to 1900, according to Bob's graph. Also the earth warmed up 1/2 of a degree in the last 100 years. There are these facts on record:
1. In the 1300th century England grew grapes and made wine.
2. In the 1300th century Greenland had farms that grew year-round.
3. The Earth is 3.5 billion years old. Life has been on the earth for 2.5 billion years. Man has been on the earth for 1 million years.
The weather is constantly fluctuating. 100 years is a very short period in the history of the earth. I wouldn't move north just yet.
2007-04-05 07:06:38 · answer #2 · answered by John S 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, not even close. 2005 was the hottest year on record, 1998 was the second hottest. 2006 was only the fifth hotest on record.
Going further back, there have been a number of years where the temperature imputed from ice core tritium levels were substancially hotter than even 2005.
2007-04-05 10:35:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on where you live. On record maybe, but when you think about the whole span of time... how long have we been able to accurately record such data, especially in the mass forms that we do to day. According to some folks, it is going to only get hotter at the poles... which is why everything is melting...according to them. Such a huge subject... thank goodness I live in the mountains and have a cold river near by.
2007-04-05 07:24:21 · answer #4 · answered by HappyGoLucky 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and the hottest years EVER in recorded history have ALL been within the last 15 years!!
2007-04-05 15:26:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One year isn't very meaningful. The weather has large fluctuations from year to year. The 150 year record is meaningful (graph on right).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png
The large graph explains why it slowed down in 1940-1980.
2007-04-05 06:59:13 · answer #6 · answered by Bob 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some parts of the world were the warmest, some were quite normal and parts of the Pacific were below normal. If you average the whole world, it was probably "normal".
2007-04-05 07:08:45 · answer #7 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends of where you live. We had a warmer summer up here, but the fall was REALLY warm.
2007-04-05 06:58:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends
2007-04-05 08:05:25 · answer #9 · answered by ckoottunkal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋