Recent analysis by scientists at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), shows 2009 to be tied for the 2nd warmest year in the instrumental record. The warmest year on record was 2005, and (statistically) tied for second place are the years 1998, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, and 2009.
Source: Hansen et al. (2010)
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The 2000s Decade the Warmest in Memory
The World Meteorlogical Organization has announced that the first decade of the 2000s was warmer than the previous (1990-1999), which was warmer than the decade before that. This statement should put to rest claims resonating from skeptical media that we are in a period of global cooling. Oh, and [...]
Hot off the press is a new global climate change synthesis report by some of the world’s leading scientists. The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science is a review of the hundreds of scientific papers published since the 2007 IPCC fourth assessment report (AR4), and presents a sobering update on the [...]
A recent study published in the September 4 issue of Science magazine is yet another indicator that the Arctic is in crisis. A team of scientists found that temperatures in the Earth’s vast northernmost region – which includes the Arctic Ocean and parts of Alaska, Canada, Russia, Greenland, and the Scandinavian countries in Northern Europe [...]
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