NASA’s global temperature data have been released for August 2011, and the results show a continuation in the global warming trend: August 2011 was the 4th hottest August on record over land and sea, and 2nd hottest on record over land.
Let’s place those temperature readings in climate context. The following are the Top 10 Hottest Augusts in the record stretching back to 1880:
2006
1998
2003
2011
2007
2005
2010
2007
2008
2011
And these are the Top 10 Hottest Augusts for our globe’s landmasses:
2009
2011
1998
2006
2010
2007
2003
2005
2002
2001


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