2010 declared hottest year on record

By Catholic Online
7/18/2010
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Heat causing droughts and fears for farmers

It's not your imagination that things appear to be scorching hot. According to a U.S. national weather analysis, 2010 is the hottest year on record, causing droughts worldwide and a concern for U.S. farmers.

According to a U.S. national weather analysis, 2010 is the hottest year on record, causing droughts worldwide and a concern for U.S. farmers.

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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - According to Jay Lawrimore, chief of climate analysis at the federal National Climatic Data Center, the first six months of 2010 has been warmer than the first half of 1998, the previous record holder, by 0.03 degree Fahrenheit.

An El Nino weather pattern is being blamed for the hot temperatures globally. "We had an El Nino episode in the early part of the year that's now faded but that has contributed to the warmth not only in equatorial Pacific but also contributed to anomalously warm global temperatures as well," Lawrimore says.

In addition, abnormally hot temperatures have been registered in parts of Canada, Africa, tropical oceans and parts of the Middle East.

Many parts of the world are suffering through droughts. Northern Thailand is struggling through the worst drought in 20 years, while Israel is in the middle of the longest and most severe drought since 1920s. In Britain, this year has been the driest since 1929.

However -- as cooler temperatures may set in later this year, it remains to be seen whether 2010 will overtake 2005 as all-time hottest year.

"This year the fact that the El Nino episode has ended and is likely to transition into La Nina, which has a cooling influence on the global average temperature, it's possible that we will not end up with the warmest year as a whole.

"For the U.S., January to June, this is only slightly warmer than average," Lawrimore says.

A deciding factor is the development of La Nina, possibly coming in July and August, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The transition commonly brings hotter and drier weather to the farming belt of the U.S. Midwest region.

The hot temperatures may especially hurt corn pollination, while dry weather could affect soy bean crops.

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Henry Rippel
2 years ago
Keep in mind that surface temp data has been untrustworthy for the last couple of decades. Temperature measuring stations located in rural areas are now in Burger King parking lots (artificial Hot-Spots). The Fed Gvmnt no longer publishes the location of measurement stations, that is now considered "Classified". For every Scientist who supports the Theory of Manmade Global Warming, there are 3~5 Scientists who oppose the entire concept, and they have the data to prove their case... unlike the Gvmnt & U.N.
If, I say IF the climate is warming - & that is still hotly debated - then their are ways to deal with it effectively. Starving our Economy of Energy IS NOT ONE OF THEM!! Energy famines will actually reduce our ability to deal with Global problems. Less Energy= Less Resources= Less Options= Larger Disasters= More Death/More Destruction.
If we desire to reduce the Energy levels in Earth's biosphere (temperature), changing the chemical composition of the atmosphere is beyond question The Hardest Method Possible! In fact, it may not even BE possible!
The most effective way to change the Biosphere's temperature would be to change the ratio between Energy Infall to Energy Radiated. In other words, we could block some of the Sun's energy from hitting Earth's atmosphere!
Simply put a cloud of reflective particles in Space, orbiting the planet at whatever altitude will best reflect the needed percentage of Sunlight away from Earth. A greenhouse in Canada heats up a whole lot less than the same greenhouse does in Brazil! Less Sunlight= Less Heat.
I read somewhere last year, that a Orbital Particle Reflection Project would cost (ballpark estimate) somewhere around $9billion, & would be effective within a year or two.
The people behind the Chicago Carbon Exchange (friends/associates of Obama & George Soros) expect Cap & Trade to bring in 10TRILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR!!! That is $10,000,000,000,000.00 each year!! The U.S. G.D.P. is only 14trillion/year. And they CANNOT/WILL NOT say that CCX will even work!!!
Please, dear Brothers/Sisters in Christ, do the math!
$10,000,000,000,000 or
$9,000,000,000
Oh, and by the way, 1928 & 1933 were both hotter than 1998.

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