The phrase
"warmest year" means that it was the year with the highest average temperatures compared to other years. It indicates that the weather was hotter than usual throughout that year.
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If you're a betting person, it would be close to a sure bet to go all - in on 2015 taking the title of
warmest year on record.
It's really very hard to show a cooling trend over the last 15 years given 1998 and the number of near - record
warm years in that period.
In particular, he references 2008, which was cooler than scientists expected, but still among the 10
warmest years since instrumental records began.
This rise has continued, with 13 of the 14
warmest years ever recorded all falling in the 21st century, but the rate of increase unexpectedly slowed.
But in that period, 18 records
for warmest year have been set, with 2014 likely to be the 19th.
This tied 2002 as the
second warmest year on record, behind the record warmth of last year, in a record that dates back to 1925.
This stands in sharp contrast to the release of the previous figures six months ago, which went only to the end of 2010 — a
very warm year.
Reality: Did global warming stop in 1998, 1995, 2002, 2007, 2010 (select
unusually warm year of choice as start - point)?
That would mean another top -
ranked warm year, but not one likely to beat 2016.
He said it's not that simple, explaining that it's the relative ranking of probabilities of last year and
previous warm years that leads to the conclusion that 2014 tops the list.
Since 1999, the IPO has been in a negative phase but consecutive record -
breaking warm years in 2014, 2015 and 2016 have led climate researchers to suggest this may have changed.
After my travels to other colder cities, I feel so fortunate to live in a city where the weather is
warm all year around.
Last year was actually the
fifth warmest year on record as far as global temperatures were concerned.
The year 2008 was likely the coolest year of the current decade, but it was still the
tenth warmest year on record since instrumental climate records began in 1850.
Obviously, this business is best suited for climates that
stay warm year - round.
The pitch of each note is tuned to the average annual temperature in each region, so low notes represent cold years and high notes
represent warm years.
My secret trick to keeping my
feet warm year round is pairing the rain boots with thick wool socks.
And the heat is not the heat of a
normal warm year, it is the heat of human - induced climate change, he says.
Global warming stopped stopping for several years, as new record -
warm years came in each of 2014, 2015, and 2016.
Yet they can not deny that nine of the ten
warmest years since systematic climate observations began have occurred in the new millennium and that global warming has slowed at a very high level.
2009 will be among the top five
warmest years globally unless there is an exceptionally cold spell before it ends.