[palmer]

Mann has published similar garbage in the past. Or let's just say this wasn't an unbiased scientific study.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.

Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.

[Chi-townChief]

I'm freezing my ass off here in Chicago; it's barely 60 outside right now.

[farmfriend]

you might be interested in this one too.

[rockfish59]

Hottest (I) in (hate) 2,000 (cars) years!

[RightWhale]

Looked, but probably missed, in which juried scientific journal this research was published.

[tubebender]

Couldn't prove it by me...It was 64 degrees in Eureka today up from 60 yesterday...

[Sam Cree]

As far as I know, most scientists who study climate can be counted among the "skeptics."

[Mercat]

Well, something is going on. In Kansas on last Wednesday, we were 11 inches short for year year on rain. Right now, we're only 2 inches short. Of course, Kansas has always had weird weather. It's one of the reasons we live here. It keeps the weirdos and wackos away.

[blam]

US Says CO2 Is Not A Pollutant

[whereasandsoforth]

I have to agree that something is going wrong. These dang Dallas summers just aren't what they use to be. Maybe all the warmth is just relocating.

[meyer]

what kind of thermometer did they use 2000 years ago?

[NordP]

"Not just warmer: it's the hottest for 2,000 years (whine alert)"

Why the heck are you whining??? I'm from MN...shut UP about it being warmer - that's a good thing -- just ENJOY it!!!

NordP

[swilhelm73]

The Vikings settled in Greenland because it was much warmer then today. When it got cooler they died off from disease and lack of food. This isn't an ancedote but well established fact.

When human beings can thrive and choose to live in Greenland with 10th century technology, then we can began to take about human induced global warming.

[TheBattman]

Earth MAY be the warmest it has been in the last 2000 years in SOME locations, but it is the coolest average in other areas. This article is further Doo-Doo put out by a bunch of talking sphinctors.....

[GladesGuru]

These chaps are part of the research group that developed the METS model, one of the world's three foremost climate models.

How good is it? According to the computer, both the Central Sahara and northern Ireland have the same summer rainfall.

The last summer rain in the Central Sahara was generations ago. 'Nuff said.

[LadyDoc]

its the hottest it has been for two thousand years? Gee, then why was it equally hot two thousand years ago? Roman SUVs?

[syriacus]

University of East Anglia's climatic research unit

Of course it's hot in East Anglia.

• East Anglia is in Britain.
• The sun never sets on the British Empire

[The Electrician]

· There were vineyards in the north of Britain

There were indeed vineyards in Britain in the 10th and 11th centuries, but only 50 to 60. There are now more than 350 in this country, with some as far north as Leeds.

This is laughable. The author apparently believes that the stated fact that there are now 350 vineyards in Britain, but there were only 50 to 60 of them a thousand years ago debunks the debunkers' claims and "proves" that it is warmer now than it was then. Of course, to believe that "analysis" you would have to believe that the count of vineyards is a natural phenomenon which is affected only by the climate, and not at all by other, human factors that have a bearing such as land use decisions and restrictions, ownership, distribution channels, markets, technology, population, advances in agriculture, tastes, ad infinitum, and that Britain today is little changed from what it was 1000 years ago. Of course that is hogwash.

[boris]

Earth Track ­ June 2003 This temperature update presents the NASA satellite measurements of monthly temperature anomalies – the difference between the observed values and the 1979–1998 mean values. Global satellite measurements are made from a series of orbiting platforms that sense the average temperature in various atmospheric layers. Here, we present the lowest level, which matches nearly perfectly with the mean temperatures measured by weather balloons in the layer between 5,000 and 28,000 feet. The satellite measurements are considered accurate to within 0.01°C and provide more uniform coverage of the entire globe than surface measurements, which tend to concentrate over land.

June 2003’s global average temperature departure was -0.01°C. The Northern Hemisphere’s temperature departure was 0.167°C and the Southern Hemisphere’s -0.187°C.

Monthly Satellite Temperatures – Northern Hemisphere

Monthly Satellite Temperatures – Northern Hemisphere