Res Ipsa Loquitur

For the meager tax payer donation of 2.5 million dollars I will happily stand write "We're gonna friggin roast to death" on a piece of paper and consider it published as science.

What ever happened to "Unseasonably warm"? Or "Unusually rainy"?

I think all of your spare heat ended up here.

Ya'll can have it back any time.

No, they are just changing the tune. I've been hearing "Global Cooling". We need to generate more heat. I suggest we get cows to fart a little more.

BS, for a mere $3M, I could research & write a thesis comparing the below-normal temps of 1981 after the heatwave of 1980 with the current below-normal temps of 2007 after the heatwave of 2006. My title would be "The Weather: It Changes".

Craig, that's what my son said....it's hitting around 130 where he is.

Valerie, maybe it's from all those UofA cows with the weird holes in their sides.

Let's see, when using the old method of correcting for temp changes caused by moving stations (using V.1), it only showed that it was the 3rd warmest year. So, they changed the algorithms (V.2) until they got what they wanted - the second warmest year.

Actually I think global warming is a good thing. The nation used less energy for heating so as a result polluted less.

"The unusually warm temperatures during much of the first half of the cold season (October-December) helped reduce residential energy needs for the nation as a whole. Using the Residential Energy Demand Temperature Index (REDTI - an index developed at NOAA to relate energy usage to climate), NOAA scientists determined that the nation's residential energy demand was approximately 13.5 percent lower than what would have occurred under average climate conditions for the season" from the annual report.