Fact #4

Fact: The hottest day was recorded in 2005

Source #1:
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/MichaelLevin.shtml

This source has links and other websites at the end of the article that shows where this information was found and how you can go look at it and figure stuff out. This particular document was meant jsut for the hottest temperature recorded on earth and obviously it depends on the place you live in. In the movie, Al Gore was talking about North America, obviously and according to this website it is not 2005, but infact it is 1913 at 134 degrees to be accurate. It was not clear in the movie whether Al Gore was talking about jsut the past 10 years or in ALL of the temperature but it was the second one, then that "fact" is not true accroding to this source.

Source#2:
http://www.cfnews13.com/Weather/AskJeffDay/2009/1/28/012809.html
This source is very reliable because it is a news website and even if it does not have sources at the end, it is int he weather section and they have records of the temprature from the past centuries and that will not change, thus this website is very credible even though it does not have the exact credentials like we would expect. This website also says that the fact is not true and that the hottest day recorded in America was in 1933 at 134 degrees. There is not a "why" answer to this question because it jsut is, that is what they recorded and they are the news that we trust everyday for weather and everything and we dont go asking for credentials.

Source #3:
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/scienceques2001/20020524.htm
This website is the goddard space flight center and this website does science question of the week and answers are given by well qualified scientists who know what they are talking about and this website is very very protected, thus even though you cannot see a bibliography per say, this is a credile website. There are also articles on the site that is about the hottest temperature that have sources listed on the bottom of the page after teh article. This source also disagrees with the fact and says that the hottest weather recorded was 1913 in Death Valley, CA and i believe this because alsmot ALL of the websites that looked through gave this exact same answer.

I do not believe this fact because i was not able to find any sources that said that the hottest day was in 2005. Infact, msot of them said it was 1913 expect for one, which is the second one on this post. I believe that the hottest day was in 1913. But i did find intresting that the second source said 1922 but the temperature they said (134 degrees) was exact same as the one at Death Valley, CA (154 degrees)....