You can't explain away climate change
Sunday, July 25, 2010 - 02:21
in Earth & Climate
Some hold that global warming stopped in 1998, but scientists know better. You probably won't hear it from columnist George F. Will, Fox News commentators or the plethora of conservative blogs that have claimed global warming essentially stopped in 1998, but recent figures released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show that global land and ocean surface temperatures in June were the highest since record-keeping began in 1880. What's more, the first half of 2010 was the hottest such period...