| ■ This Year Among Warmest on Record: U.N. | 2010.12.03 |
| It's "almost certain" that 2010 will be one of the three warmest years worldwide on record, and the past decade was the warmest 10-year period since the first weather records were recorded in 1850, says the World Meteorological Organization. The United National agency data released at the U.N. climate negotiations in Mexico confirmed that a global warming trend has been occurring for decades, the Associated Press reported. The two other warmest years were 1998 and 2005. The average temperatures of all three of the warmest years were within 0.02 degrees Celsius (0.036 Fahrenheit) of each other, WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud told reporters. He also said that natural temperature variation cannot explain the record warmth that occurred between 2001 and 2010, the AP reported. |