Climate Progress : 2010 tied with 2005 for hottest year on record

Climate Progress has the story: BPSDB

• According to the Global Historical Climatology Network, 2010 was the wettest year on record, in terms of global average precipitation….
• These records are especially impressive because we’ve been in “the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century.”
• All 12 of the hottest years on record have occurred since 1997.
• NASA recently reported the “meteorological year” — December to November — was also the hottest on record.
• the hottest year was accompanied by record-smashing weather extremes
• “The year 2010 now has the most national extreme heat records for a single year–nineteen.

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Skewed views of science and other bits

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A couple of useful resources from QualiaSoup to share with Deniers who cannot seem to grasp what science and critical thinking actually are.

Skewed views of science

Granted most Deniers will never look at them, but at least we can try. They are obviously created for the anti-science vs Evolution crowd, but since they are virtually identical in tactics and ignorance of science to the climate change Deniers these videos are still bang on.

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