{"id":14810,"date":"2011-01-12T12:49:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T20:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=14810"},"modified":"2011-01-12T12:49:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T20:49:06","slug":"noaa-2010-tied-for-hottest-year-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/noaa-2010-tied-for-hottest-year-on-record\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA: 2010 Tied for Hottest Year on Record"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2010 global temperature anomalies compared to 1961-1990 average. (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How many times have you heard that climatologists can’t predict climate because weathermen can’t predict the weather. Plenty if you follow the issue like I do. But just as some prominent climatologists predicted, 2010 was the hottest year on record<\/a>. That’s what NOAA’s data, the first to come out for the 2010 calendar year, show… (as already covered in December, the 2010 meteorological year was the hottest on record<\/a> according to NASA.<\/p>\n

“It was the 34th-consecutive year that the global temperature was above average, according to the data center,” USA TODAY notes<\/a>. “The last below-average year was 1976.”<\/p>\n

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2010 global temperatures anomalies compared to 1971-2000 average. (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here’s more on “Global Highlights” from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) of the NOAA:<\/p>\n