It's getting really hot out there

A recent study has revealed that Earth's "warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years," it's likely the hottest it's been in 2,000 years, and it's been possibly much longer since Earth has run such a fever:

The National Academy of Sciences, reaching that conclusion in a broad review of scientific work requested by Congress, reported Thursday that the "recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia."

A panel of top climate scientists told lawmakers that Earth is heating up and that "human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming."
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Other new research Thursday showed that global warming produced about half of the extra hurricane-fueled warmth in the North Atlantic in 2005, and natural cycles were a minor factor.
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The scientists said they had less confidence in the evidence of temperatures before 1600. But they considered it reliable enough to conclude there were sharp spikes in carbon dioxide and methane, the two major "greenhouse" gases blamed for trapping heat in the atmosphere, beginning in the 20^th century, after remaining fairly level for 12,000 years.

Between 1 A.D. and 1850, volcanic eruptions and solar fluctuations were the main causes of changes in greenhouse gas levels. But those temperature changes "were much less pronounced than the warming due to greenhouse gas" levels by pollution since the mid-19^th century, it said.

And what's the reaction of our President to such shocking revelations, threatening our very own planet?

The Bush administration has maintained that the threat is not severe enough to warrant new pollution controls that the White House says would have cost 5 million Americans their jobs.

The threat is not severe enough. Astonishing. Does Bush need to see Texas-like deserts in place of the front lawn of the White House to see global warming as a severe enough threat to give a damn?!

I wonder if the Bush administration ever contemplated the undeniable fact that if the US ends up under a mile of ice, our jobs will be the last of our worries.

Let's see how glad Mexico will be to accept 300 million immigrants from its northern neighbor when we're forced to flee to avoid being enveloped by glaciers taller than the Empire State Building.

Who will want to build a wall then, I wonder...