2010 tied with 2005 for hottest year on record

[louise]

I thought the readers here might be interested in this:

• According to the Global Historical Climatology Network, 2010 was the wettest year on record, in terms of global average precipitation….
  
• These records are especially impressive because we’ve been in “the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century.”
  
• All 12 of the hottest years on record have occurred since 1997.
  
• NASA recently reported the “meteorological year” — December to November — was also the hottest on record.
  
• the hottest year was accompanied by record-smashing weather extremes
  
• “The year 2010 now has the most national extreme heat records for a single year–nineteen.
  

From greenfyre.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/climate-progress-2010-tied-with-2005-for-hottest-year-on-record/#more-9256

[rsmith7]

Oh good, another socialist/green activist.
You don't work at the daily telegraph by any chance?
www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8252999/Celebrity-chefs-make-gurnard-and-dab-fashionable.html

[louise]

This site climateprogress.org/2011/01/12/noaa-2010-tied-with-2005-for-hottest-year-on-record/ also has this to say:



In 2010, global temperatures continued to rise. A new analysis from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies shows that 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year on record, and was part of the warmest decade on record. [The anomaly is versus the 1951 to 1980 baseline.]

UPDATE: NASA has just released its analysis of the 2010 temperature data here, which finds:

Global surface temperatures in 2010 tied 2005 as the warmest on record….

To measure climate change, scientists look at long-term trends. The temperature trend, including data from 2010, shows the climate has warmed by approximately 0.36°F per decade since the late 1970s. “If the warming trend continues, as is expected, if greenhouse gases continue to increase, the 2010 record will not stand for long,” said James Hansen, the director of GISS.

The record temperature in 2010 is particularly noteworthy, because the last half of the year was marked by a transition to strong La Niña conditions, which bring cool sea surface temperatures to the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.

These records are also especially impressive because we’ve been in “the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century.”


my emphasis in bold

[rsmith7]

"said James Hansen, the director of GISS."

Excuse me while I pick myself off the floor and wipe the tears from my eyes.
We're supposed to be underwater if this lunatic is to believed.

[marchesarosa]

GHCN does not carry much weight amongst people who know how they have screwed the network of surface stations over the years. more than 90 percent of currently reporting stations are in urban areas and at airports. Ever heard of UHI, louise?

Nice!

[helen]

Marchesarosa, you don't engage in debate, you said this. Whatever. The Urban Heat Island argument one of the most specious arguments in climate science, the thing is.....is there a trend in the recorded temperature records? It doesn't matter that the recording instruments are in a block of flats, on an airport or in the middle of an olive grove - is there a provable trend over a given time? If you deny that the world is warming, never mind the causes, then you are out on your own as a maverick. You have to prove that the rest of the scientific community is wrong. Let's see the evidence that the world is not warming. Then we'll move on to the causes.

[rsmith7]

Never mind this nonsense helen darling - it's so last year.
How about coming back to the fish thread.
I remember hundreds of posts back an forth between us last year on this very subject.

Why so coy now?
I feel so jilted!