2010 was the Warmest Year on Record

Well it was at least tied with 2005 that is according to studies released by NASA (their study released for the Meteorological Year which ended November 30th says the same thing) and NOAA. According to the USA Today article covering the news:

The Earth's average temperature in 2010, as in 2005, was 58.12 degrees, which is 1.12 degrees above the 20th-century average of 57 degrees.

It was the 34th consecutive year that the global temperature was above average, according to the data center. The last below-average year was 1976

Greenman3610 at the climate crock blog does a better job breaking this down than I could have so head over there to read up on it.

Michael Specter on the danger of science denial

It's a little long but Michael Specter does a great job talking about why denying science is dangerous



This can of course be applied to evolution and global climate change as well but medicine is obviously one of the things that effects us all and is easy to see in the short term.

Start of Fall Practice and Arkansas State

Can you feel it only 38 more days till kickoff of the 2009 Virginia Tech football season. I for one am excited. Now we all know that before you have your first game you have to have your fall practices, one of the most hated things you go through as a player trust me 2 a days suck, and at this time next week the players for Virginia Tech will be reporting for camp with the first practice the next day. I can tell it is getting closer.

Virginia Tech also confirmed today that they have added Arkansas State to the schedule for 2011 to replace the vacancy left by Syracuse when they backed out of the commitment they had with VT for a home and home in 2010 and 2011. Now the replacement that VT made for 2010 of Boise State at FedEx field is somewhat respectable. Afterall Boise State is a giant killer at times, now I have a feeling it will be hard for them to come all the way across the country to play in a very pro VT FedEx Field. Arkansas State on the other hand went 6-6 last year in the Sun Belt Conference, if we want to be competitive we need to play the best and this is not the way to do it.