coloration. look at the graphics show. you images i am talking about what the mars rover snapped. tracks of the rovers. see the marbles. same thing up there you have in your hand. that is from mars. this is from state of utah in the united states. they know water processes cause these formations giving them the sphere shape. weathering. taking the rock. holding, 25 million years old. want to show you the martian sunset. show you the maps. walk up to them. this is what you would see on the surface of mars. similar to earth. desert landscape. when the sun is setting. you have haze, dustin the apt muss fear. plenty of ice crystals. water vapor in the atmosphere as well. in fact measurement for one single earth years, taken up there by the curiosity rover, took temperature observations, moisture observations, humidities, 5%. and summer months. 100% in autumn and winter. mars curiosity found out once the sun sets. the moisture is able to be
occurring, and it s not just these temperatures, you know. noaa observes a lot of areas. the amount of moisture in the atmosphere. the amount of glaciers that are retreating. the amount of sea ice that we see. the temperature and the level of the sea itself. all of these together support these temperature observations that together support a warming planet. okay. but if we go into 2011 we shouldn t expect to see the temperatures go up, because the temperatures could shift back down? yeah, there s going to be some noise or some chop. the long-term trend is up. the important thing is not so much it s not really what s the warmest. we all get wrapped up in, is this going to break a record. the important thing, you know, this is 306 consecutive months with above-normal temperature. and whether this year or next year is the warmest or the second warmest or the third warmest, you know, you really don t have to go to the worst house, touch the worst house in the neighborhood to know you
american progress which claimed the minneapolis bridge collapse and arsonist lit wildfires on global warming. they didn t blame that on global warming. it wasn t that simple. noaa reported decade 2009 was the warmest on record worldwide. stephen, what about those that say, these are just natural fluctuations. there are natural fluctuations. the whole issue of climate change, kind of like we re in this courtroom. there s a whole bunch of evidence that s being put in front of us. we have evidence coming from temperature observations. we have other evidence coming from global climate models and how they are coming more consistent over time. we have evidence having to do with changes in alpine glaciers and permafrost and so forth in the high latitudes. if you put all these things together, you get a body of evidence. that s what is collectively causing most scientists,