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2006 Hottest Year in US History  Fifth-Hottest Year Globally The National Climate Data Center reports that 2006 was the fifth-hottest year since recordkeeping began in 1890. The global average temperature has risen 0.7 degrees since the beginning of the 20th century, with the majority of the increase occurring since 1976. 2006 was the hottest year in the United Kingdom since 1659, in the Netherlands since 1706, and in Denmark since 1768. Russia experienced the warmest winter day since 1957 and one of the warmest winter periods since the 1870s. Bears in the Moscow Zoo and Bulgaria are not hibernating. Australia is in the midst of the worst drought in about 1,000 years. Hottest Year in US History  Global temperature trends mask the fact that the northern
hemisphere is
getting hotter faster than the southern hemisphere. The National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports that 2006 was the
hottest year in the contiguous U.S. since recordkeeping began in 1895.
Five states had their warmest December on record (Minnesota, New York,
Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire). Even in Denver, which was wracked
by record snowfall, the temperature for the month was 1.4 degrees
warmer than the 1971-2000 average.The rate of increase since the mid-1970s is three times faster than the 100-year trend. Each of the past nine years has been among the hottest 25 years on record, "a streak," according to NOAA, "which is unprecedented in the historical record." In NOAA's first admission that global warming is caused by greenhouse gases, the agency stated that "A contributing factor to the unusually warm temperatures throughout 2006 also is the long-term warming trend, which has been linked to increases in greenhouse gases. This has made warmer-than-average conditions more common in the U.S. and other parts of the world." Get the Facts on Global Warming here. Click here to view the original article |
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