The Reuters "news agency" is back to beating the global warming drum. This time they say that "scientists" have temperature data going back a full million years, and that the Earf is hot hot hot.

Overall, Earth is within 1.8 degrees F (1 degree C) of its highest temperature levels in the past million years, Hansen and the others wrote. They noted a recent steep rise in average temperatures, with global surface temperatures increasing about 0.4 degrees F (0.2 degrees C) for each of the last three decades.

Scientists attribute this rise to human activities, specifically the release into the atmosphere of greenhouse gases--notably carbon dioxide--which let in sunlight and trap its heat like the glass walls of a greenhouse.

So, to what do scientists attribute the rest of the increase? Well, they don't. What's more, they don't explain what happened to the ice age if there was no significant temperature increase until SUVs came along during modern times.

Of course any global warming trends that may be occurring are not caused by carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases. It's caused by THE SUN, which has been at the highest level of solar output in the last 1100 years. And everyone seems to have forgotten that the globe has been warming for 20,000 years.

UPDATE: Heh. Unpartisan thinks I'm "from the left".