how hot was it? 2006 sets US record
NOAA reported today that 2006 was the warmest in the contiguous United States since record keeping began 112 years ago in 1895 (via envlaw prof blog).
The record was set in part because of extremely warm December weather: no state was colder than average and five states had record warm weather — Minnesota, New York, Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire.
The average temperature was about 55 degrees Fahrenheit, or 2.2 degrees above the average temperature recorded from 1901 to the end of 2000.
NOAA attributed the record warmth to El Nino and overall global warming, but said
“It is unclear how much of the recent anomalous warmth was due to greenhouse-gas-induced warming and how much was due to the El Nino-related circulation pattern.”
For the record, this is one of the first times that Bushies bureaucrats have publicly acknowledged global warming’s human causes (via NY Times).
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