A Warming World: Global Temperature Update

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Each year, scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyze global temperature data. The past year, 2009, tied as the second warmest year since global instumental temperature records began 130 years ago. Worldwide, the mean temperature was 0.57 degrees C (1.03 degrees F) warmeer than the 1951-1980 base period. And January 2000 to December 2009 came out as the warmest decade on record.

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Date Of Record Release	2011-03-09 19:20:24
Description	Each year, scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyze global temperature data. The past year, 2009, tied as the second warmest year since global instumental temperature records began 130 years ago. Worldwide, the mean temperature was 0.57 degrees C (1.03 degrees F) warmeer than the 1951-1980 base period. And January 2000 to December 2009 came out as the warmest decade on record.
Classification	Climate and Meteorology -- Climate Change Climate and Meteorology -- Research Education and Training Resources -- College level Education and Training Resources -- High school level
Resource Type	Article/Journal Research
Format	Text Visual/Slides/Film
Subject	Climatic changes Climatic changes--Research Spacecraft Spacecraft instruments
Source	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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Date Of Record Creation	2011-03-09 19:07:04
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Date Last Modified	2011-03-09 19:31:09
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Date Record Checked: 2011-03-09 00:00:00 (W3C-DTF)

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