2007 WAS HOTTEST YEAR ON THE PLANET!

By Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
2007 was another sizzling year for the planet — the warmest year ever recorded for the Earth's land areas, federal scientists at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center reported Tuesday, with an average temperature about 1.84 degrees above the long-term average. Global weather records began in 1880.
For the entire Earth's surface, including the oceans, scientists report that the global temperature was the 5th-warmest on record.