Wednesday, January 20, 2010

RealClimate: 2009 temperatures by Jim Hansen

January 17th, 2010
This is Hansen et al’s end of year summary for 2009 (with a couple of minor edits).

If It’s That Warm, How Come It’s So Damned Cold? 


by James Hansen, Reto Ruedy, Makiko Sato, and Ken Lo

The past year, 2009, tied as the second warmest year in the 130 years of global instrumental temperature records, in the surface temperature analysis of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). The Southern Hemisphere set a record as the warmest year for that half of the world. Global mean temperature, as shown in Figure 1a, was 0.57°C (1.0°F) warmer than climatology (the 1951-1980 base period). Southern Hemisphere mean temperature, as shown in Figure 1b, was 0.49°C (0.88°F) warmer than in the period of climatology.
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