The Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has recently updated their temperature time series to include data for 2006. I thought I’d share the latest data with you.
First of all, here’s the global average (land+sea) temperature time series from 1880 to 2006:
Most of you have seen something very similar before; this is only different in including data up to 2006. During the modern global warming era (1975 - present), the rate of warming for the globe as a whole is 1.8oC/century. It’s also worth noting that the 7 hottest years on record all occur in the last 9 years. Because of the combination of global warming with the current el Nino condition, it is not unlikely that 2007 will break the record, becoming the hottest year ever recorded.
