David - I am unfamiliar with the reporting method in the GISS data.
Obviously the numbers are not temperature per se. If they are
temperature changes or possibly deviations from a baseline - perhaps you
could illuminate so I don't have to dig through references. The data
seem at odds with what I have been finding, but I'm sure it's simply
because I don't have a key to the GISS formatting.
Bob at PC
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<RLAMONT@providence.edu> wrote:
What has been the trend in average global temperature over the past
10
years?
According to NASA GISS's data[1], it is just slightly positive -- about
0.02 C in 10 years. 2005 was the warmest year ever in their records, and
Jan 2007 was the warmest month ever compared to its average. The past 6
months have all been warmer than the year before.
In any case, such plateaus have occurred before in the last 35 years,
especially in the early- to mid-1990s, and are nothing original or
unexpected[2] by the theory of anthropogenic global warming.