Wednesday, January 6, 2010

A century of warming

2009 is Australia's second warmest year ever since 1910.

That's the finding from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology who say that 2009 will be remembered for extreme bushfires, dust-storms, lingering rainfall deficiencies, areas of flooding and record-breaking heatwaves.

The graph shows temperature change, averaged over 10 years, the grey bars. It's a consistent picture worldwide - watch the world warm in these NASA animations from 1880 to 2006.

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