article thumbnail

NOAA: Warmest April Global Temperature on Record; Also Warmest January-April

Green Car Congress

Global temperature anomalies in April 2010 with respect to a 1971-2000 base period. Cooler-than-normal places included Mongolia, Argentina, far eastern Russia, the western contiguous United States and most of China. million square miles (14.7 below the 1979-2000 average. Source: NOAA. Click to enlarge.

Global 186
article thumbnail

JPL study finds Earths largest lakes warming due to climate change

Green Car Congress

Satellite data have the potential to provide a continuous worldwide record of surface temperatures of inland water bodies extending back to the early 1980s.These sensors have been used to determine changes in global ocean surface temperature from 1985 to 2000 with trends between 0.009 °C yr -1 and 0.018 °C yr -1 but only.