Warmest Years on Record: A Tie between 2010 and 2005
According to the National Climatic Data Center, 2010 tied with 2005 for the hottest year on record–all 12 have occurred since 1997.
Such reports and the ongoing severe winter weather events are possibly further evidence climate change–not the opposite–as some would have listeners and readers believe.
According to NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration),
Both La Niña and El Niño tend to peak during the Northern Hemisphere winter… The frequency of El Niños has increased in recent decades, a shift being studied for its possible relationship to global climate change.
Or perhaps, as one scientist working with NOAA asserts,
Snowy winters will happen regardless of climate change… A negative North Atlantic Oscillation this particular winter, [2009], made the air colder over the eastern U.S., causing more precipitation to fall as snow. El Niño brought even more precipitation — which also fell as snow.
According to climate scientists, freak snowstorms may be tied to climate change or may be just that–freak. But whatever the finding, their occurrences do not prove global warming is not, in fact, occurring.
2010 marks the 34th consecutive year global temperatures have been above average.
