Global temperatures since 1950

[MJ the Skeptical]

I heard Newt Gingrich recently say [not verbatim] How can you possibly know the right temperature? isn't that up to opinion?...Which is asinine on so many levels...the most obvious being; if we don't have the right temperature, the oceans will turn acidic from overheating, or the plant life dies out and the animals go extinct because they can't just up and move like we can. People, if you can call him a human being, like Gingrich are the kind of people running the U.S. and this is why there's so many idiotic deniers of Demonstrable Science. The denial mostly stems from blowhard creationists who sincerely don't give a damn about the planet who spread misinformation and lies about the truth of what's happening in nature. It's worse than treason if you ask me.