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Hottest Year

Posted: 05 Jan 2011, 08:43
by Pepperman

Posted: 05 Jan 2011, 12:25
by PS_RalphW
The local weather station has recorded the coldest year in Cambridge since it started logging on the web in 1997.

But that is just weather :P

Posted: 05 Jan 2011, 14:51
by RenewableCandy
We've had some record cold numbers here too. In that case it must be steamingly-hot somewhere else...erm, like the Arctic.

Posted: 05 Jan 2011, 18:49
by kenneal - lagger
Chris Vernon posted a map recently showing that the cold has been in areas frequented by our press while the warm has been in areas not frequented by the press (sorry, have searched but cannot find it). so, QED, the world is cooling! :shock: :D

From memory, the warmer areas this winter have been northern Canada, about 10 deg C warmer and Greenland, about 6 deg C.

Posted: 05 Jan 2011, 19:46
by biffvernon
This one?
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Posted: 05 Jan 2011, 19:51
by Pepperman
Or this one for the meteorological year 2010?

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Or this one for November 2010?

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http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/maps/

Edited:- added a new URL for first map to show on screen - Ken

Posted: 06 Jan 2011, 14:24
by kenneal - lagger
Thanks, Biff, that's the one.

Posted: 07 Jan 2011, 16:23
by RenewableCandy
Perhaps we need to send all those sceptical OpEd writers to the Arctic? Erm, purely for research purposes you understand :D

Posted: 08 Jan 2011, 17:29
by kenneal - lagger
RenewableCandy wrote:Perhaps we need to send all those sceptical OpEd writers to the Arctic? Erm, purely for research purposes you understand :D
On a one way ticket?

Posted: 08 Jan 2011, 17:39
by RenewableCandy
Now would I do a thing like that :twisted: ?

Posted: 08 Jan 2011, 18:10
by JohnB
No ticket. So they get ejected before the plane lands :evil:.

Posted: 10 Jan 2011, 14:25
by RenewableCandy
STOP...from October the first, if you say "Whatever happened to Global Warming, eh?" whenever it's a bit cold or wet... :lol:

Posted: 12 Jan 2011, 19:12
by biffvernon
It's a dead heat!

2010 tied in top place with 2005 for the hottest year (and it was the wettest).

http://climateprogress.org/2011/01/12/n ... on-record/

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Posted: 21 Jan 2011, 18:25
by biffvernon
More confirmation of a dead heat:
http://climateprogress.org/2011/01/20/w ... er-events/

but 2010 wins on points because it was "characterized by a high number of extreme weather events".

2010

Posted: 21 Jan 2011, 18:30
by ujoni08