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2010 warmest / second warmest on record
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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