Green: Pace on 2010 in my folder, NASA said (NYT)

An analysis of the average global temperatures in November by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies shows 2010 the pace to become the hottest year since temperature data collection began 130 years ago. NASA has already classified 2005 as its warmest year ever.

Record temperatures appear to come from a combination of man-made climate change and natural warming in the tropical Pacific Ocean earlier this year, said Kevin Trenberth, head of the climate to National Center analysis for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado

"When you have natural variability is going in the same sense that human influence on climate, it is when break you records," said Mr. Trenberth.

Once again, some of the most striking year global warming has been observed in the Arctic. For example, Canada, Hudson Bay is usually covered by half by the ice at the end of November. November 30, however, only 17% of the Bay was frozen. The lack of sea ice seems to play an important role in global warming of the atmosphere in the region, said science.

Year was marked by extreme weather phenomena a wave Russia record heat in July for the catastrophic floods in Pakistan. At least 17 nations, many in Asia, establishes a record day heat records. Unusually high sea temperatures have also been blamed for a global coral reef bleaching.

A snap cold underway this month at the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Northern Europe was unusual but it will do little to change global mean temperatures for the year, said James Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. ""This regional cold spelling has caused widespread comment that global warming is complete,"said Mr. Hansen." "" This is rarely the case. »

Analysis by two other repositories of the temperature of the planet, the National Oceanic and National Climatic Data center's Atmospheric Administration and joint registration data kept by Met Office the United Kingdom and the University of East Anglia, also show a project 2010 and two hot that the year will probably link or exceed their records record temperature average.