The warmest yet according to a report that is due to come out. Maybe this Congress will be more interested in the future of the planet.
The findings are preliminary, and a final review later this year could still put 2006 just below the previous record set in 1998, the National Climatic Data Center reported. But in any case, the two years are pretty much a tie in terms of hot ones since recordkeeping began in 1880.An inconvenient truth, indeed.
Both years averaged around 55 degrees Fahrenheit - 2.2 degrees above the 20th century mean.
