Northern Hemisphere Temperature Highest Ever
Frances C. Moore
With the record for 2007 now complete, it is clear that temperatures
around the world are continuing their upward climb. The global average
in 2007 was 14.73 degrees Celsius (58.5 degrees Fahrenheit) -- the
second warmest year on record, only 0.03 degrees Celsius behind the
2005 maximum. January 2007 was the hottest January ever measured, a
full 0.23 degrees Celsius warmer than the previous record. August was
also a record for that month, and September was the second warmest
September recorded.
Looking at the northern hemisphere alone, 2007 temperatures averaged
15.04 degrees Celsius (59.1 degrees Fahrenheit) -- easily the hottest
year in the northern half of the globe since the record began in 1880,
and more than a degree warmer than the 1951–80 average..
For entire text see http://www.earthpolicy.org/Indicators/Temp/2008.htm
For data see http://www.earthpolicy.org/Indicators/Temp/2008_data.htm
For an index of Earth Policy Institute resources related to
Temperature and Climate see http://www.earthpolicy.org/Indicators/Temp/index.htm
And for more on the effects of rising temperature and how to stabilize
climate, you may be interested in Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save
Civilization by Lester R. Brown (New York: W.W. Norton & Company,
2008). Information about this book is on-line at http://www.earthpolicy.org/Books/PB3/index.htm
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