Tuesday, August 07, 2007

U.N.: Sky was falling in early 2007

So says Chicken Little:
The world experienced a series of record-breaking weather events in early 2007, from flooding in Asia to heatwaves in Europe and snowfall in South Africa, the United Nations weather agency said on Tuesday.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said global land surface temperatures in January and April were likely the warmest since records began in 1880, at more than 1 degree Celsius higher than average for those months.

I'd just like to point out that this planet is a big place and there is extreme weather somewhere every single year. It isn't a harbinger of the end of the world, and trying to make one year's extreme weather worse than another's is at best subjective and, at worst, dishonest.

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