Tag: Goddard Institute for Space Studies

• Friday, January 20th 2012 - 15:24 UTC

  Global average temperature in 2011 the ninth warmest in modern records

  

  The global average temperature in 2011 was the ninth-warmest in the modern meteorological record, continuing a trend linked to greenhouse gases that saw nine of the 10 hottest years occurring since the year 2000, NASA scientists said this week.