2009 Warmest Year on Record in Southern Hemisphere

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January 18, 2010

2009 Warmest Year on Record in Southern Hemisphere

By Thomas Schueneman

 

Data just released from NASA

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/01/2009-temperatures-by-jim-h\

ansen/ indicates that 2009 was the hottest year on record in the Southern

Hemisphere http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2010/113/2 , and

globally comes in for a " three way tie " as the second-warmest year in the

instrumental record (with 2007 and 1998), as Reto Ruedo, co-author of the NASA

report, told Joe Romm of Climate Progress

http://climateprogress.org/2010/01/14/2009-hottest-year-on-record-in-southern-he\

misphere-nasa-giss/ last week.

 

According to surface temperature analysis http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp from

the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), the southern hemisphere was

0.88 degree Fahrenheit (0.49 Celsius) warmer in 2009 than for the baseline

period (known as the " climatology " period) of 1951-1980. Global mean

temperatures in 2009 were 1 degree F (0.57 C) warmer for the same period.

 

Despite persistent assertions that 1998 is the warmest year on record with

" global cooling " occurring since then, 2005 holds the current top spot as

warmest year on record according to GISS analysis. Further, the first decade of

the 21st century was warmer the the 1990's and 0.54 degree C warmer than the

20th century average, according to recent research from the National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration

http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/press_releases/pr_869_en.html (NOAA) and

the World Meteorological Organization

http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/press_releases/pr_869_en.html (WMO) .

 

Solar minimum and trailing indicator of climate

 

Oceans warm more slowly and with less variability than on land, making the

southern hemisphere – which is mostly water – a " trailing indicator " of climate

change, says Ruedo. Globally, 2009 resulted in some of the warmest ocean surface

temperatures on record

http://www.globalwarmingisreal.com/blog/2009/09/17/noaa-data-shows-summer-ocean-\

surface-temperatures-warmest-on-record/ . We are also now at the deepest solar

minimum in nearly a century, according to NASA

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/03sep_sunspots.htm .

 

All indictions are that, in spite of the persistent reoccurrence of winter

(which seems to confuse some folks), the trend continues toward warming, with

anthropogenic forcings as the apparent primary cause.