World Meteorological Organization’s 4 pages press release No. 768 from December 14th summarizes year 2006 and counts reords.
Averaged separately for both hemispheres, 2006 surface temperatures for the northern hemisphere (0.58°C above 30-year mean of 14.6°C/58.28°F) are likely to be the fourth warmest and for the southern hemisphere (0.26°C above 30-year mean of 13.4°C/56.12°F), the seventh warmest in the instrumental record from 1861 to the present.
Since the start of the 20th century, the global average surface temperature has risen approximately 0.7°C. But this rise has not been continuous. Since 1976, the global average temperature has risen sharply, at 0.18°C per decade. In the northern and southern hemispheres, the period 1997-2006 averaged 0.53°C and 0.27°C above the 1961-1990 mean, respectively
Read about regional temperature anomalies, drought, heavy precipitation and flooding, El Niño, deadly typhoons, ozone depletion and Arctic sea-ice decline from all over the planet.
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