Just in time for the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, a rather dire report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) shows that global warming has no sign of slowing down. This decade will likely be the warmest since record keeping started in 1850, with 2009 as the fifth hottest year on record.
“The period from 2000 through 2009 has been warmer than the 1990s, which were warmer than the 1980s and so on,” explained Michel Jarraud, secretary general of the UN weather agency during a Copenhagen news conference.
The global combined sea surface and land surface air temperature for 2009 (January–October) is currently estimated at 0.44°C ± 0.11°C (0.79F ± 0.20F) above the 1961–1990 annual average of 14.00°C/57.2F, according to the WMO.
The majority of the world experienced above average temperatures, with the exception of North America (United States and Canada), which experienced cooler temperatures.
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