NASA Data Shows Past Decade Was Warmest on Record

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New temperature figures show that the past decade was the warmest since temperature record-keeping began in 1880, the New York Times reports. The NASA report on land and sea surface temperatures also shows 2009 beating out 2005 as the warmest year on record, and a warming trend of 0.36 degrees Fahrenheit per decade for the past 30 years.

"When we average temperature over five or 10 years to minimize that variability, we find global warming is continuing unabated," said James Hansen, NASA's director of space studies and one of the world's leading climatologists.

Another study from a different office at NASA, the National Climate Data Center, showed 2009 tied with 2005 as the sixth hottest year on record, but also highlighted the previous decade as the warmest on record. All of the warmest years have come since 1998.

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