As Long As It Isn't Boiling

Seems to be the administration's response to the issue.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 2005 warmest ever year in north: "The global increase is 0.48 Celsius, making 2005 the second warmest year on record behind 1998, though the 1998 figure was inflated by strong El Nino conditions.

The northern hemisphere is warming faster than the south, scientists believe, because a greater proportion of it is land, which responds faster to atmospheric conditions than ocean.

Northern hemisphere temperatures are now about 0.4 Celsius higher than a decade ago.

'The data also show that the sea surface temperature in the northern hemisphere Atlantic is the highest since 1880,' said Dr David Viner from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (UEA).

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However, Fred Singer from the Science & Environmental Policy Project in Washington DC, a centre of the "climate sceptics" community, disputed this interpretation.

"If indeed 2005 is the warmest northern hemisphere year since 1860, all this proves is that 2005 is the warmest northern hemisphere year since 1860," he told the BBC News website.

"It doesn't prove anything else, and certainly cannot be used by itself to prove that the cause of warming is the emission of greenhouse gases.

"It requires a more subtle examination to know how much of warming is due to man-made causes - there must be some - and how much is down to natural causes."

Eight of the 10 warmest years since 1860 have occurred within the last decade. "

Nothing to worry about, it only means that eight of the 10 warmest years since 1860 have occurred within the last decade. These guys act like they don't plan on being here in a few years and therefore this is nothing to worry about.