Editorial in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, another of America’s great legacy of great newspapers:
The decade that ended in 2009 was the warmest on record, NASA reported earlier this month. It displaced the decade of the 1990s as the warmest ever. The 1990s displaced the 1980s.
Last year was the second-warmest since 1880, when modern temperature measurements began. The warmest year on record was 2005. All of the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 1998. Perhaps you’re starting to see a pattern.
Tip of the old scrub brush to Open Mind, who also notes that the last decade was the warmest ever.
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