{"id":231574,"date":"2010-01-26T11:51:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T16:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/?p=8439"},"modified":"2010-01-26T11:51:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T16:51:47","slug":"nasa-cites-2009-as-second-warmest-year-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/231574","title":{"rendered":"NASA cites 2009 as second-warmest year on record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From Green Right Now Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8448\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 207px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8448\" title=\"418945main_global-temp-vga-226x134\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/418945main_global-temp-vga-226x134.jpg\" alt=\"Image Credit: NASA\/GISS\" width=\"197\" height=\"117\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: NASA\/GISS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>If 2009 left you a little hot under the collar, there was more to that feeling than job losses, bankruptcies and foreclosures.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out it actually <em>was<\/em> pretty hot out there.<\/p>\n<p>According to NASA\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giss.nasa.gov\/\" >Goddard Institute for Space Studies<\/a>, 2009 tied for the second-warmest year on record, trailing only 2005. In the southern hemisphere, &#8216;09 was the warmest year since the inception of record-keeping in 1880.<\/p>\n<p>The NASA report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/wpvi\/2009\/12\/08\/2009-will-be-among-warmest-years-on-record\/\" >confirmed predictions<\/a> made in a\u00a0study issued by the World Meteorological Association late last year.<\/p>\n<p>In all, 2009 finished tied with five other years (four from the 2000s) for the second-warmest year ever. With so many of the hottest years in that decade, the period between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2009 became the warmest on record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe (yearly) ranking often misses the point,\u201d Dr. James Hansen, GISS director, said in a press release. \u201cThere\u2019s substantial year-to-year variability of global temperature caused by the tropical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elnino.noaa.gov\/\" >El Nino<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elnino.noaa.gov\/lanina.html\" >La Nina<\/a> cycle. When we average temperature over five or ten years to minimize that variability, we find global warming is continuing unabated.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Green Right Now Reports Image Credit: NASA\/GISS If 2009 left you a little hot under the collar, there was more to that feeling than job losses, bankruptcies and foreclosures. Turns out it actually was pretty hot out there. According to NASA\u2019s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2009 tied for the second-warmest year on record, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}