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Global Warmists Are Having Kittens!

http://www.livescience.com/animals/070606_gw_pets.html
It's raining cats and dogs, LiveScience reports. Well, cats anyway. OK, not exactly raining, but--whatever, global warming is to blame!

"Droves of cats and kittens are swarming into animal shelters nationwide, and global warming is to blame, according to one pet adoption group.
Several shelters operated by a national adoption organization called Pets Across America reported a 30 percent increase in intakes of cats and kittens from 2005 to 2006, and other shelters across the nation have reported similar spikes of stray, owned and feral cats.
The cause of this feline flood is an extended cat breeding season thanks to the world's warming temperatures, according to the group, which is one of the country's oldest and largest animal welfare organizations. "

We were wondering just how much global temperatures went up between 2005 and 2006, so we checked with NASA http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt . It turns out the average global temperature actually declined by 0.09 degrees centigrade. Maybe the cats had to go into heat to keep warm.