NASA: 2005 could be warmest year recorded

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NASA: 2005 could be warmest year recorded

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CNN is reporting that 2005 may be the hottest year out of anyone still alive has ever seen. Man made greenhouse gases and a weak EL Nino look to be the reasons for the concerns.

Don't worry about the ice caps though, I'm sure the increased temperature wont have any impact on them melting or anything. Should be interesting to see what happens to say the least. If you own coastal property you might see some of your property "fall" into the ocean this year.
A weak El Nino and human-made greenhouse gases could make 2005 the warmest year since records started being kept in the late 1800s, NASA scientists said this week.

While climate events like El Nino -- when warm water spreads over much of the tropical Pacific Ocean --affect global temperatures, the increasing role of human-made pollutants plays a big part.

"There has been a strong warming trend over the past 30 years, a trend that has been shown to be due primarily to increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere," said James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, based in New York.
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