Which Rank will the year 2012 get in Global Surface Air Temparature Anomaly (base 1951-1980) ?

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Which Rank will the year 2012 get in Global Surface Air Temparature Anomaly (base 1951-1980) ?

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Which Rank will the year 2012 get in Global Surface Air Temparature Anomaly (base 1951-1980) ?

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Josef Biesenberger in Science » Environment
Settled on 01/31/2013 07:03 by

kruijs
settled question on option 'Rank 7 or lower'.

NASA scientists say 2012 was the ninth warmest of any year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures. With the exception of 1998, the nine warmest years in the 132-year record all have occurred since 2000, with 2010 and 2005 ranking as the hottest years on record.

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012-temps.html

Rank 1 - 3

Rank 4 - 6

Rank 7 or lower

Background

Full article: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2011/
The global temperature anomaly from 1880 through 2011 is shown in Fig. 2 for the standard (1200 km resolution data) GISS analysis. The year 2011 is the 9th warmest in the GISS analysis. Nine of the ten warmest years are in the 21st century, the only exception being 1998, which was warmed by the strongest El Niño of the past century.
Global surface air temperature anomalies relative to 1951-1980 base period for annual and 5-year running means. Green vertical bars are 2σ error estimates (Hansen et al., 2010).

Data for settlement: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/Fig.A.txt

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