NASA: 2010 Meteorological Year Warmest Ever

[greenman3610]

Source: Science Magazine

The 2010 meteorological year, which ended on 30 November, was the warmest in NASA's 130-year record, data posted by the agency today shows. Over the oceans as well as on land, the average global temperature for the 12-month period that began last December was 14.65˚C. That's 0.65˚C warmer than the average global temperature between 1951 and 1980, a period scientists use as a basis for comparison.

The 2010 meteorological year was slightly warmer than the previous warmest year, the 2005 calendar year, when the average temperature was 14.53˚C.

Read more: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/12/nasa-2010-meteorological-year-wa.html?ref=hp

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, greenman.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Warmest November ever, despite a moderate La Nina

The Arctic is melting like crazy.

[zeemike]

3. But, but, but there is snow in the UK

that proves they are lying doesn't it?

[FailureToCommunicate]

4. Too bad our elected officials will hear no more about global warming...

Rep Ed Markey's Global Warming committee is to be disbanded by the incoming Republican climate zombies:

http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2010/12/01/house-republicans-disband-global-warming-committee/

[xocet]

5. K & R n/t

[gratuitous]

6. Uh oh, has Sen. Coburn been notified?

What am I saying? Republicans everywhere are doing their level best to avoid any of the facts about global climate change, preferring instead to ratchet up the unfunny jokes whenever there's a snowstorm. "Looks like Al Gore was wrong! Ho, ho, ho. It snowed today. Har de har har.

[progressoid]

7. Blah blah blah. It's all cyclical.

A reeeeealy big warming cycle.

[FailureToCommunicate]

9. Did you forget your **sarcasm** smilie?

[progressoid]

13. Yeah,

Sad that it would be needed here, but I often forget.

[FailureToCommunicate]

15. No, it wasn't needed.

I shouldn't have bothered you for it. Sorry.

[sakabatou]

8. And it'll keep getting warmer if we don't do anything.

[Arrowhead2k1]

10. I think it's too late.

We dun goofed.

[FailureToCommunicate]

11. "Oops, my bad." (Humans to Mother Earth)

[drawingfool]

12. I remember in Janueary and February hearing

But...but its snowing, how can there be global warming and be snowing? Someone even put the stupid cartoons about it on their blog: http://ifglobalwarmingisrealthenwhyisitcold.blogspot.com/

I guess it can snow and be the hottest year on record.

[Systematic Chaos]

19. Welcome to DU, drawingfool.

The oil companies have the deniers very well trained.

[panzerfaust]

14. Move along, nothing to see here: But, I do have a new Climate Change book to suggest

The Flooded Earth: Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps (2010), by Peter Ward.
Actually, reading this book made me feel BETTER (not his intent I am sure) as it seems clear that the world will stay pretty much as it is until I am dead - and I long ago decided that this was not a world I wanted to bring children into.

Well, one thing will change, likely the coral reefs will completely die before I do - which is very sad. Even now many in the Caribbean are gone.



Here is a link to the book's site: http://www.floodedearth.com/

Unfortunately, that website is another opportunity lost, as it is basically just an ad for the book. A website that has scientifically valid information about global climate change is: http://realclimate.net/


Image NOT from RealClimate: But shows a not improbable future America. Perhaps fittingly, some of the some reddest, most climate-change-denier parts of our country are gone. At too high a price though

[FailureToCommunicate]

17. Thanks. Another one to read is

"Climate Cover-Up" by James Hoggan. Actually maybe not, since it will just make you madder at the evil forces arrayed against reason: Big Oil and Coal lobbyists and the Media versus like, real scientists.

It is all quite depressing. (Where is Morgan Freeman when we need him?)

Thanks for the links.

[The Straight Story]

16. So 2006, 07, 08, 09 were colder than 2005?

How's that happen :evilgrin:

[NickB79]

18. Year-to-year swings are weather; decade-to-decade swings are climate

Look at the graph posted on the OP's link to see the overall upward trend.