Global Offset Experts: UK Met Office says 2010 was the second hottest year on record.

Jan. 20, 2011 - PRLog -- Global temperatures were at the second highest on record in 2010 according to the UK Met Office, adding evidence that put 2010 among the hottest recorded. The mean surface temperature across the planet’s land masses and oceans in 2010 was 14.5° Celsius (58.1° Fahrenheit), only about 0.02° lower than 1998’s record the Met Office informed Global Offset Experts recently.


Global Offset Experts has learned that the three primary series used by the UN in measuring the extent of global warming all indicate similar trends, with the U.S.’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration both saying recently that 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest.

Late last year, Michel Jarraud, general secretary of the World Meteorological Organization, informed Global Offset Experts that the long term trend indicated by all the data to date was of “very significant warming.”

The head of climate science at the UK’s Met Office, Vicky Pope also said that rising greenhouse gas emissions could also cause temperature increases of 4° Celsius by as early as 2060.

While the individual ranking of given years may differ across the three data sources, all have the same years among their 10 hottest, and all of those years have been since 1998.

Global Offset Experts has learned that the three series are each calculated in different ways to make up for the gaps between weather stations.

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