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Global Temperature Anomalies: 1880 to 2012 |
2012 was the ninth warmest year on record, and the warmest year on record for continental US.
NASA’s analysis of Earth’s surface temperature found that 2012 ranked as the ninth-warmest year since 1880. NASA scientists at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) compare the average global temperature each year to the average from 1951 to 1980. This 30-year period provides a baseline from which to measure the warming Earth has experienced due to increasing atmospheric levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
Read more on NASA.gov.
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