Markey: New Climate Records Show Science is True, Not a Trick
2009 On Track to be 5th Hottest Year, This Decade Was Hottest on Record
New temperature findings by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have found that 2009 is on track to be the 5th warmest year on record, and that this decade was the warmest on record. These new findings buttress the overwhelming scientific record that global warming is real and is accelerating.
“Global warming deniers are trying to say this is all a trick, but the truth of the matter is that our world is getting hotter, faster,” said Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), co-author of the Waxman-Markey climate bill and chair of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. “There is a mountain of evidence proving global warming is a fact, but the defenders of the fossil fuel status quo are using a molehill of a scandal to distract the world. The deniers will not win, because they are wrong.”
According to data from NOAA, this decade had an average global surface temperature about 1 degree Fahrenheit above the 20th century average, easily surpassing the 1990s value of 0.65 degree Fahrenheit above average.
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