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Originally Posted by ute4ever
The National Climatic Data Center reported that the 2000s was the warmest decade on record, easily surpassing the previous hottest decade (the 1990s). In 2009, global surface temperatures were 1.01 degree above average, which researchers call fresh evidence that the planet may be warming at a potentially disastrous rate.
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Are the changes anthropogenic? Is this based upon the false data? I note it is the government, which has a declared agenda, making this claim. Thus, in light of the inherent conflict of interest, the claim is suspect. Given that the most recent climategate reveals a tendency for these organizations to fabricate evidence, the declaration is also suspect for another reason.
As it is, I note from your article:
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- The 10th consecutive summer with above-normal temperatures in the U.S. Northwest.
- Record winter drought in Texas.
- The deadliest February tornado in Oklahoma history.
- The largest wildfire in Los Angeles County history.
- Most active tornado season in a decade in Louisiana and Alabama.
- New seasonal snowfall records for Spokane, Wash., and International Falls, Minn.
- Worst deluge in decades in northern Brazil, affecting 186,000 people.
- Heavy rainfall in northern Argentina, causing a landslide affecting 20,000 people.
- Disastrous floods triggered by heavy rain in Central Europe.
- Britain's heaviest snowstorm since 1991.
- Extratropical storm Klaus (similar to a category 3 hurricane) kills 30 in France and Spain.
- Heaviest snowfall in northern China in 55 years.
- Typhoons batter the Philippines causing fatal flooding.
- More than 600 die in the deadliest typhoon to hit Taiwan in five decades.
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