The phrase "warmest decade" means that a particular period of ten years has been identified as having the highest average temperature compared to all previous decades in history.
Sentences with «warmest decade»
The cooling trend was reversed during the 20th century, with four of the five warmest decades of our 2000 - year - long reconstruction occurring between 1950 and 2000. (science.sciencemag.org)
Like the hiatus decades, these large values for the accelerated warming decades were chosen so that the trends were obvious. (realclimate.org)
These studies tend to be rather sensitive to the time period chosen, and a future warm decade could considerably change the picture. (yaleclimateconnections.org)