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NASA: 2009 second warmest year on record
Mongabay ^ | January 24, 2010 | Jeremy Hance

Posted on 01/24/2010 3:56:39 PM PST by Dementio

According to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), last year was tied for the second warmest year on record after 2005, the warmest year on record. If just looking at the southern hemisphere, however, 2009 proved the warmest yet recorded since record-taking began in 1880. Overall 2009 tied a total of five other years—four from the 2000s—for the second warmest on record. But, researchers say what is most important was that the past decade, from January 1st 2000 to December 31st 2009, proved the warmest on record.

"There's always interest in the annual temperature numbers and a given year's ranking, but the ranking often misses the point," James Hansen, GISS director, said in a press release. "There's substantial year-to-year variability of global temperature caused by the tropical El Nino-La Nina cycle. When we average temperature over five or ten years to minimize that variability, we find global warming is continuing unabated."

The map shows temperature changes for the last decade -- January 2000 to December 2009 -- relative to the 1951-1980 mean. Warmer areas are in red, cooler areas in blue. The largest temperature increases occurred in the Arctic and a portion of Antarctica. Map by: NASA. The year before last, 2008, was the coolest year of the 2000s due to a strong La Nina event that cooled the tropical Pacific Ocean, however warm temperatures made a comeback last year as the La Nina event fell back. Even an unseasonably cool December in North America did little to stem the overall warming trend in 2009.

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KEYWORDS: 2009review; climategate; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; goebbelswarming; nasa; troll; vikingkitties; zot
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To: Crim
2009 COLDEST JULY ON RECORD
That's in six states. Not globally. Here is the global temperature for July, 2009:
The combined average global land and ocean surface temperature for July 2009 ranked fifth-warmest since world-wide records began in 1880.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090814_julyglobalstats.html
41 posted on 01/24/2010 4:18:08 PM PST by Dementio
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To: Dementio

They got their statistics from the penguins.


42 posted on 01/24/2010 4:19:31 PM PST by Carley (Are you better off now than one year ago? HELL NO!!!!!)
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To: Dementio

Notice how Hansen MIXES DATA. He’s got the totally discreditd land station data, ocean data from satellites, and some other stuff. Why he doesn’t use satellite measurements of land surface temperatures is a doggoned good question. http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20100121/


43 posted on 01/24/2010 4:19:35 PM PST by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: Dementio
lol

seriously, when are they going to start throwing these con artists in jail?

Fraud is a crime and these global warming fraudsters need to be prosecuted vigorously.

44 posted on 01/24/2010 4:20:22 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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To: Dementio
Climategate: CRU Was But the Tip of the Iceberg
45 posted on 01/24/2010 4:20:42 PM PST by Jean S
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To: Dementio

This is a NY Times hitpiece BTW.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/science/earth/22warming.html


46 posted on 01/24/2010 4:21:02 PM PST by eyedigress ( now.ical)
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To: Dementio

May be the warmest at NASA center but not here.


47 posted on 01/24/2010 4:21:05 PM PST by Neoliberalnot ((Freedom's Precious Metals: Gold, Silver and Lead))
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To: GeronL
They get their data from East Anglia University and the IPCC?

How does that go again...The end justifies the means?

48 posted on 01/24/2010 4:21:14 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Roscoe Karns

Fire up the big machine.


49 posted on 01/24/2010 4:21:21 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Dementio

Was anyone at NASA sniggering or keeping their fingers crossed when this report was made public? Are you sure this wasn’t supposed to be released on April Fools Day?


50 posted on 01/24/2010 4:21:41 PM PST by ReleaseTheHounds ("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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To: Dementio

NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). This is not a Space Study and is a waste of money for Space Exploration that we pay NASA to do, done by what I think are big time lies. But then they must not care that the southern sea ice was the largest in 2009 since the 1970’s as that was the first time it was measured. Must be really warm down there when there is over 1 million square miles of extra sea ice.


51 posted on 01/24/2010 4:21:50 PM PST by YOUGOTIT (The Royal 100 Club is Acting the Same as the Roman Senate When the Republic Collapsed)
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To: Dementio

I would like full disclosure from these people.

I would like to see his e-mail to other “scientists”.


52 posted on 01/24/2010 4:22:41 PM PST by cruise_missile
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To: Dementio

Too late...you’ve outed yourself...

IBTZ!


53 posted on 01/24/2010 4:25:19 PM PST by Crim
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To: Dementio

NASA GISS changes the historic temperature record every month.

One might wonder why one of the months in 1880 has to be changed every month but they are.

80% of the changes each month lower an old record. The law of averages says this is manipulation, pure and simple.

Here is a page monitoring any changes made.

http://www.changedetection.com/log/gov/nasa/giss/data/glb2_log.html


54 posted on 01/24/2010 4:27:50 PM PST by JustDoItAlways
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To: Dementio
From the National Post:

Scientists using selective temperature data, skeptics say

This article was posted in FR here:

Scientists using selective temperature data, skeptics say

The FR posting was abridged to 300 words as required by CanWest News Servicde, the publisher of the National Post.

55 posted on 01/24/2010 4:30:20 PM PST by Clive
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To: Dementio
Amanda Carpenter :: Townhall.com Columnist NASA Blocked Climate Change Blogger from Data

Despite the fact that NASA tried to block him from accessing U.S. temperature data, persistent efforts by a climate change blogger forced the government to amend U.S. temperature data.

Because of the blogger’s efforts, NASA now recognizes 1934 as the hottest year in U.S. history, not 1998......."

The thread article says 2005 was the warmest. Hansen is mendacious.

56 posted on 01/24/2010 4:31:09 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Dementio

I don’t remember it like that. Sunspots were absent and seemed cooler. Must have been all the cook outs I did.


57 posted on 01/24/2010 4:31:51 PM PST by depressed in 06 (Tea parties today, Lexington tomorrow.)
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To: Dementio
Amazing they expect anyone to believe the .36F in ten years??
58 posted on 01/24/2010 4:32:43 PM PST by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: Dementio

These people want to go back to the moon???? Maybe to hunt for cheese.


59 posted on 01/24/2010 4:32:45 PM PST by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: Dementio

Someone forgot to tell NASA about the bogus data, probably Hanson. Oh well, even though we’ve been in a cooling trend for the past decade, the warming kooks will come out to drink this koolaid.


60 posted on 01/24/2010 4:38:56 PM PST by pallis
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