Oughts

Not to point out the obvious, but given that the Oughts were the warmest decade on record, and corresponded with an unusually long and deep solar minimum, doesn't that suggest the presence of a large non-solar forcing which is warming the planet in spite of the slight fall in irradiance?

Watts Up With That? Anthony Watts 2010

Robert (12: 35: 12): Not to point out the obvious, but given that the Oughts were the warmest decade on record, and corresponded with an unusually long and deep solar minimum, doesn't that suggest the presence of a large non-solar forcing which is warming the planet in spite of the slight fall in irradiance?

Watts Up With That? Anthony Watts 2010

Robert: "but given that the Oughts were the warmest decade on record"

Watts Up With That? Anthony Watts 2010

"Oughts" are no more absolute than the desire and capability of individuals to act on them.

Carry-Over Thread 2007

The three imperative "Oughts" for the parent or teacher are herein suggested.

The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux

In a clever wordplay, the lamented that the decade should not be called the Aughts, but the "Oughts," in memoriam of all the achievements that "ought" to have happened in the 2000s, but didn't.

Politics Daily 2009

"Not to point out the obvious, but given that the Oughts were the warmest decade on record, and corresponded with an unusually long and deep solar minimum, doesn't that suggest the presence of a large non-solar forcing which is warming the planet in spite of the slight fall in irradiance?

Watts Up With That? Anthony Watts 2010

Back then, our grandparents called the 01-09 years "The Oughts."

A New Year: Adieu To The Oughts 2010

The Oughts fairly reek of pull yourself up by the bootstraps optimism.

A New Year: Adieu To The Oughts 2010

But with the American dream in disarray, it hardly feels justified to call this last decade "The Oughts."

A New Year: Adieu To The Oughts 2010