How does this mix with the reports that the last 10 years have been cooler?
They just wanted to release it in time for the coronation.
“How does this mix with the reports that the last 10 years have been cooler?”
The last 10 years, 1999 to 2008, have all been cooler than 1998. the last two years, 2007 and 2008 have been decidedly cooler than previous years.
Saying that 2008 is “8th warmest” and that the warmest years were in the last decade is another way of saying
2008 was cooler than 8 of the last 11 years. The trend in 2008 was down.
Most importantly though is that the magnitude of overall warming from average 20th C is now small enough to be ‘in the noise’ ... it’s under 1F.
Something isn't adding up.
No contradiction: the maximum avg global temperature (since records were kept) as computed by NOAA occurred in 1998. Since then the avg temperatures have gone down, but not by enough to stop displacing old records.
Actually, I’m still wondering whether this isn’t a lie. Wasn’t there a year in the 1930’s the was extraordinarily hot that the AGW types keep trying to paper over? And, it may well be a mistake as well: the urbanization of areas where temperature measurements are taken produce local temperature increases much in excess of planet-wide trends, and it’s not at all clear the AGW types are adequately correcting for this.