NASA GISS Reports 2005 Warmest Year Globally in
Instrumental Record
On January 18 James (Jim) Hansen, Director
of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), sent a
message to many leaders in the meteorological and scientific
communities reporting that global temperatures in
2005 exceeded those of any previous year since extensive instrumental
records have been available. These records extend about a century
and a quarter. By the GISS calculations 2005 was slightly
warmer than 1998, previously regarded as the warmest year
in instrumental records.
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Further Reading
Analysis
of global temperature for 2005
