2009 the 7th hottest year ever globally - final results.

[feargach]

Global Temperature Trend Update -- January 2010 - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Powered by the El Nino, temperatures throughout 2009 were warmer than
seasonal norms, making it the seventh warmest year in the 31-year
satellite-based temperature record.

Year Temp Anomaly
1. 1998 +0.512 C
2. 2005 +0.338 C
3. 2002 +0.311 C
4. 2007 +0.282 C
5. 2003 +0.275 C
6. 2006 +0.260 C
7. 2009 +0.259 C
8. 2001 +0.198 C
9. 2004 +0.193 C
10. 1991 +0.117 C

The data for the chart can be found here [http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2lt/uahncdc.lt] . The northern hemisphere is warming at +0.19 C degrees per decade and the southern hemisphere is warming at +0.07 C degrees per decade. Interestingly, the satellites show that the n

[Wakeupcall]

Haha you recently told us another recent year was 3rd hottest on record and now u tell us last year was 7th. So you are saying that it's getting colder?

[st333ve]

People think that a cold spell in the winter means that it disproves global warming, when global warming takes into account worldwide temperatures all year.
Even a colder than average winter will not bring the averages down, thats how serious it is.

[Húrin]

Haha you recently told us another recent year was 3rd hottest on record and now u tell us last year was 7th. So you are saying that it's getting colder?

Sceptics seem to imagine that the lines on graphs are smoothed averages which always obey trends. When you look at graphs you see that they are quite shaky.

[sharper]

Haha you recently told us another recent year was 3rd hottest on record and now u tell us last year was 7th. So you are saying that it's getting colder?

It's tied for second hottest in the GISS dataset, this is about the UAH dataset.

[ibis]

It's tied for second hottest in the GISS dataset, this is about the UAH dataset.

Goodness me - but according to Destiny's Soldier (and the right-wing blogosphere) they all use the same (dodgy, obviously) datasets...

[sharper]

Goodness me - but according to Destiny's Soldier (and the right-wing blogosphere) they all use the same (dodgy, obviously) datasets...

They're all faked anyway...unless one of them says a particular year is cooler than the others. That means the cooler one is reliable.

If they ever did manage to get the CRU dataset removed they'll be shocked to learn it's one of the cooler datasets out there.

[toughbutfair]

The heading is "ever" then it turns out to be 31 years.

7 out of 31 isn't that high (not even Champions league place in football terms)

[KingKane]

Use the existing threads. There are more than enough threads on this.