<div>More from the "Church of Global Warming...."</div>
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<div>Just joshing around, so no need for anyone to get their dander up... But the facts are the facts... Science, not religion. I'd be happy to discover that June 2008's average global land temperature was the 4th. coolest since 1880, suggesting that the consensus among climate scientists that human greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet, might be a scientific mistake. The outlook for humanity will be much improved if radical climate change, from human greenhouse gas emissions (or otherwise), does not happen. Of course the long term temperature trends over decades tell the story, not one month.</div>
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<div>While Pullman/Moscow had snow in June this year, leading some to snicker about the scientific basis for human caused global warming, the global average land surface temperature for June 2008, according to the National Climate Data Center, was the 4th. warmest on record. Note this is not the combined land/ocean surface temperature, which was 8th. warmest for June, while the ocean only surface temperatures were the 10th. warmest. Data on the Jan.-Jun. 2008 average global temperature is now also available from the NCDC: Land temp. 8th. warmest, Ocean 10th. warmest, combined 9th. warmest:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2008/jun/global.html#temp">http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2008/jun/global.html#temp</a></div>
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<div>From URL above:</div>
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<p>During June, above average temperatures were observed across Australia, northwestern Africa, eastern Brazil, the eastern and southern continental U.S., and most of Europe and Russia. Meanwhile, cooler-than-average conditions were present across the north-central and northwestern contiguous U.S., the southern countries of South America, northern India, and western Russia.</p>
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<p>Anomalously warm temperatures covered much of the world's land surface throughout the first half of the year. The <a href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2008/jun/map-blended-mntp-200801-200806-pg.gif">January-June 2008</a> map shows the presence of warmer-than-average temperatures across Europe, Asia, western and central Australia, the eastern and southern continental U.S., parts of South America, and most of Africa. Elsewhere, cooler-than-average conditions were observed in parts of the northwestern and north-central states of the contiguous U.S., central Africa, eastern Australia, and other parts of South America.</p>
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<p>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</p></div>