24/01/2011 by admin.

The British Met Office, using data from it’s Hadley Centre and the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit, says that 2010 was the second warmest year on record, only being beaten by 1998.

The UN’s World Meteorlogical Organisation (WMO), which uses this data as well as that from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, says that 2010 was the warmest year on record, but statistical margins of uncertainity make it a tie with 2005 and 1998.

The ten hottest years on record have all been since 1998.

Part of the reason for the high temperatures was due to El Nino conditions, and 2011 is likely to be down slightly due to La Nina conditions, but there is no denying the fact the underlying average is on an upwards trend.

More information can be found on the BBC News website (which includes a graph showing the average temperature since 1850), and on the Guardian website.

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15/01/2011 by admin.

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have said that 2010 was the joint warmest year on record, based on global surface temperatures. Both 2010 and 2005 were 0.62C above the 20th century average.

Other points to note are:

1) 2010 was also the wettest year on record based on global average precipitation

2) The Atlantic has the second highest number of hurricanes on record, and the third highest number of  storms

3) The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached 390 ppm, the highest level for at least 800,000 years, and 40% higher than pre Industrial Revolution levels.

More info can be found on the Yahoo news website.

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