Click here to read the summary report. Click here to go to the website.
Thanks to the Summit County Citizens Voice (Bob Berwyn) for the link. From the post:
It was the warmest decade since the start of modern measurements in 1850, with more national temperature records broken than in any previous decade. Along with analyzing global and regional temperatures and precipitation, the report took a close look at extreme events, including heat waves in Europe (2003) and Russia (2010), Hurricane Katrina in the United States of America, Tropical Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, droughts in the Amazon Basin, Australia and East Africa and floods in Pakistan.
The decade was the warmest for both hemispheres and for both land and ocean surface temperatures. The record warmth was accompanied by a rapid decline in Arctic sea ice, and accelerating loss of net mass from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and from the world’s glaciers.
As a result of this widespread melting and the thermal expansion of sea water, global mean sea levels rose about 3 millimeters per year, about double the observed 20th century trend of 1.6 mm per year. Global sea level averaged over the decade was about 20 cm higher than that of 1880, according to the report.