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Using data gathered by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the U.S. National Climatic Data Center, the UK Met Office compared temperatures for 2010 against those measured in 1998, the reigning hottest year in the books, and concluded that if current trends hold true, 2010 will be even hotter.
The Met Office also analyzed climate records dating back to 1850, and concluded that the evidence for global warming was rock solid. "When you follow those decade-to-decade trends then you see clearly and unmistakably signs of a warming world," Peter Scott, the department's head of climate modeling, told the Guardian.
Whether this summer's heat waves can be directly attributed to global warming is a contentious point, but there's no debate that this year has been mighty steamy. Indeed, as these examples show, already in 2010, it's been hot enough to:
RELATED1. Kill 66 people in Japan, and hospitalize another 15,000.
2. Kill three people in New York City, including a 22-year-old Brooklyn man.
3. Drown hundreds of Russians, an untold number of whom were believed to be drunk.
4. (This happened in Oregon, too.)
5. Actually keep New Yorkers from eating ice cream as Mister Softee trucks play their sweet, sweet jingles to no avail while residents cower from the sweltering air indoors.
6. Blanket Moscow in smog from peat fires sparked as the earth in the surrounding countryside "literally smoulders."
7. Mercilessly shrink the size of Europe's French fries.
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