2005 was warm!
Last year was the warmest recorded on Earth's surface, and it was unusually hot in the Arctic, U.S. space agency NASA said on Tuesday. All five of the hottest years since modern record-keeping began in the 1890s occurred within the last decade, according to analysis by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. In descending order, the years with the highest global average annual temperatures were 2005, 1998, 2002, 2003 and 2004, NASA said in a statement.

"It's fair to say that it probably is the warmest since we have modern meteorological records," said Drew Shindell of the NASA institute in New York City. "Using indirect measurements that go back farther, I think it's even fair to say that it's the warmest in the last several thousand years."

"That is simply not true!" according to Sean Hannity. "Using a different and more valid set of records, you actually see that the world is, if anything, slightly cooling." Pat Robertson suggested assassination. "I don't know who that guy is, that NASA person, but we can show our love for God by striking him down, so God has more time to answer our prayers about the supreme court thing."

The CHL issued a brief statement, simply stating that everything was going according to plan.
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Still Homogenizin'
Never mind the recent lack of posting--we've been busy homogenizing. One recent success:

Harlequin Frogs: Scientists studying a fast-dwindling genus of colorful harlequin frogs on misty mountainsides in Central and South America are reporting today that global warming is combining with a spreading fungus to kill off many species. About two-thirds of over 110 species of brightly colored harlequin frogs, in the genus Atelopus, in the American tropics, have vanished since the 1980's. The researchers implicate global warming, as opposed to local variations in temperature or other conditions. Their conclusion is based on their finding that patterns of fungus outbreaks and extinctions in widely dispersed patches of habitat were synchronized in a way that could not be explained by chance.
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