NASA - Decade Ending In 2009 Warmest Since Record-Keeping Began In 1880s - Bloomberg

[hatrack]

Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Temperatures in the decade that ended in 2009 were the warmest since record-keeping began in 1880, NASA said, backing up data from the U.K. Met Office and the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization.

For the past three decades, surface temperatures rose about 0.36 degrees Fahrenheit (0.2 degrees Celsius) per decade, said Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. Average global temperatures have increased by about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880.

“It’s completely unambiguous that the last 10-year period from January 2000 to December 2009 is very clearly the warmest decade in the historical record,” Schmidt said yesterday.

While 2008 was the coolest year of the decade because of a strong La Nina atmospheric condition that cooled the tropical Pacific Ocean, global temperatures returned to a near record in 2009, NASA said. The data puts 2009 almost in a tie with 1998, 2002, 2003, 2006, and 2007 for the second-warmest year on record.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=aFe6UUuGRyqU

[Birthmark]

1. Yeah?

Wait 'til next decade!!

[reggie the dog]

2. but but but it snowed in Saint Paul yesterday....

that is PROOF that the climate is no warmer than before and that golobal warming is a hoax.......

[Birthmark]

3. It snowed?

Ack! Then you're right...because if there's one thing climatologists all agree on it's that if it *ever* snows *anywhere, ever again* then AGW is utterly disproved. ;)

[krispos42]

4. Wait a minute...

...the continental United States isn't is the entire globe???


Damn!

[joshcryer]

5. All down to that warming in AU.

Even a huge denialist must accept this (image by Motl).

[krispos42]

6. Cool graph. Got a link handy? n/t

[joshcryer]

8. Sure thing:

http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/

[krispos42]

9. Excellent. thanks, I've added it to my Favorites folder :-) n/t

[NecklyTyler]

7. NASA evidently didn't get the memo about hiding the decline

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