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16 January 2013
NASA: 2012 Was 9th Warmest Year on Record. The 9 Warmest Years Have All Occurred Since 1998.
After the news a couple of weeks ago that the USA had its hottest year on record, NASA and NOAA released the global temperature data today. NOAA pegs it as the 10th warmest and NASA has it as 9th. They both do separate and slightly differing analyses. The bigger story here is that all 9 of the hottest years on record have occurred since 1998. (See below) In case someone tells you …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.