clipped from www.environmentalgraffiti.com

Like Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan, climate change is back with a vengeance. Unfortunately for us, the metaphorical bad weekend isn’t forgetting everything learned in a six-week rehab and wrecking a car that costs more than most homes, but rather the most dramatic temperature increase over any three months, ever.

In the wake of our multi-week ice age, it may come as cold comfort to see the planet warming with such speed. What was actually going on?

Well, as it happens, January 2008 was the 31st warmest on record, but a far cry from January 2007, which was the warmest ever. A little perspective helps everything, except a newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch, it seems.

Now that the hysteria over out mini-ice age (Solar Activity Diminishes; Researchers Predict Another Ice Age) has diminished, it’s important to re-examine what, exactly, is going on: the temperature is rising, rapidly.