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Last Year Was Warmest in a Century

More important, he said, is that 2005 reached the warmth of 1998 without help of the "El Nino of the century" that pushed temperatures up in 1998.

Over the past 30 years, Earth has warmed a bit more than 1 degree in total, making it about the warmest it's been in 10,000 years, Hansen said. He blamed a buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.

But I guess before we really decide to give a shit about global warming and agree to do something about it, we should wait and see if there's any actual scientific evidence, right Republicans? I'm sure that while the great-grandkids try to find a way out of the massive national debt we're going to pass on they'll have plenty of time to science their way out of this looming disaster.