Climate Progress has this from a new report by the World Meteorological Organization:
In January and April 2007 it is likely that global land surface temperatures ranked warmest since records began in 1880, 1.89°C warmer than average for January and 1.37°C warmer than average for April. Several regions have experienced extremely heavy precipitation, leading to severe floods. The Fourth Assessment Report of the WMO /UNEP Intergovernmental Group on Climate Change (IPCC) notes an increasing trend in extreme events observed during the last 50 years. IPCC further projects it to be very likely that hot extremes, heat waves and heavy precipitation events will continue to become more frequent.
For the global warming deniers, the WMO had this:
According to the most recent climate change scientific assessment reports of the joint WMO/UNEP Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the warming of the climate system is unequivocal. Eleven of the last twelve years (1995-2006) rank among the 12 warmest years in the instrumental record of global surface temperature. The 100-year trend (1906-2005) is 0.74°C. The linear warming trend over the last 50 years (0.13°C per decade) is nearly twice that for the last 100 years. Paleoclimatic studies suggest that the average Northern Hemisphere temperatures during the second half of the 20th century were very likely higher than during any other 50-year highest in the past 1,300 years.
Why is it that we’re willing to confiscate every liquid and force the removal of every shoe in our airports for the one in a billion chance of catching a terrorist but aren’t willing to change some of our horribly wasteful habits for the extremely likely chance that they contribute to climate change that is killing people right now?
And for you global warming deniers, let me save you the effort.
But Al Gore blah blah blah.
But Professor Hannity told me der der der.
But an issue of Newsweek 30 years ago said ugh ugh ugh.
But Professor Stossel told me ooga ooga ooga.
But the earth’s natural cycles eepa eepa eepa.
But Bush’s ranch la la la.
But some oil-funded scientist said yada yada yada.
We’ve heard it all before.
(h/t Climate Progress)
