2005 warmest year on record
The world mean temperature continued to rise and made 2005 the warmest year on record. The annual study carried out by NASA, confirmed that global surface temperature was the highest recorded with standard instruments in more than a century.
Though 1998 was warmer, 1998 was boosted by the El Niņo phenomenon. Reducing the 1998 temperatures with 0.2 degrees, which compensates for the El Niņo, leaving it trailing 2005 though the two years are very close.
28th January 2006
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NASA warns that global warming is now 0.6°C in the past three decades, and 0.8°C in the past century. The largest warming in the last 50 years have occurred in Alaska, Siberia and the Antarctic Peninsula, where the melting of the northern sea ice is threatening to disrupt the gulf stream and bring chaos to large parts of northern Europe.
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