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World’s scientists call warming ‘unmistakable’


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By Brian K. Sullivan, Bloomberg News

Scientific evidence that the world is getting warmer is “unmistakable,” according to a report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration drawing on research from 48 countries, including Russia and China.

The past decade was the warmest on record and the past 50 years have been getting hotter, the researchers said, citing 10 main indicators, including surface and ocean temperatures, the amount of sea ice and glaciers and levels of humidity.

“The records come from many institutions worldwide,” Jane Lubchenco, NOAA administrator and undersecretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere, said in a statement. “These independently produced lines of evidence all point to the same conclusion: Our planet is warming.”

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  1. doubleblack says - Posted: August 8, 2010

    I say, lets go back 10,000 years when Tahoe was under ice. Will that make people happy?
    The Earth has been warming since the end of the little ice age around 1850
    The question is who should we blame.
    Mother nature or man. The scientific answer is probably nature, but for political purposes and big government grants lets blame man.
    Why not give government more control over our lives and lower our standard of living to resolve a problem we are not sure exists.