Record warmth in 2010

[mgc1961]

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.

In 2010, temperatures measured over land alone were also the warmest ever, with instruments showing a December-November average of 14.85˚C. Combining this warming with above-average ocean temperatures led to the global average of 14.65˚C.

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

[Quixote1818]

1. But the deniers have been saying it's been getting colder and to gear up for an Ice Age.

Who to believe, NASA or a bunch of Tea Bagging loons?

[HillbillyBob]

2. Or personal observations of local weather that have suddenly become

drought prone after 300 yrs of settlement.

We have a spring fed creek that has not dried up since 1913 (when they started keeping local records and the eldest folks around here remember). It has dried up the last 2 yrs in a row and nearly so the year before that.
The creek runs through out our little community and some of the elders were saying at the little store around the corner that this creek has never in their memories dried up even in prior droughts, as they used to swim in the deep part on our property. Its all silted over now, but you can see the outlines of the old swimming hole.

[joshcryer]

3. Kick

[joshcryer]

4. Here's the prelim report:

PDF: http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2010/2010_Hansen_etal.pdf