2009Dec7: “the last ten years have been the warmest period in the 160-year record of global surface temperature, maintained jointly by the Met Office Hadley Centre and the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. Similar results are revealed in the independent analyses made by the United States National Climatic Data Center and NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies” (Met Office).
Reference: Met Office http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2009/pr20091208b.html
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