France has had hottest year since 1900
This year was the hottest in France since the start of the 20th century, Meteo France said Tuesday, with average national temperatures 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than the norm.
This year was the hottest in France since the start of the 20th century, Meteo France said Tuesday, with average national temperatures 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than the norm.
The average national temperature in 2011 was 13.6 degrees Celsius (56 degrees Fahrenheit), Meteo France's Francois Gourand told AFP, 0.2 degrees Celsius warmer than the previous hottest year, 2003.
This year's spring was particularly warm, with temperatures an average 4.0 degrees Celsius warmer than usual in April. The "norm" is the average temperature from 1971 to 2000, Gourand said.
The average national temperature in France in 2011 was 13.6 degrees Celsius (56 degrees Fahrenheit), Meteo France's Francois Gourand told AFP, 0.2 degrees Celsius warmer than the previous hottest year, 2003.
Autumn 2011 was also exceptionally mild, with November the second hottest since 1900, 3.0 degrees Celsius warmer than the average of temperatures from 1971 to 2000.Every month in 2011 was above this benchmark except for July, when temperatures were 1.3 degrees Celsius cooler than average.
The year's warm temperatures were accompanied by 20 percent less rainfall than usual, except in the southeast of France where heavy rain in November saw the average attained.
On a global level, the World Meteorological Organisation said at the end of November that 2011 was at that point the "10th warmest year at a global level" since records began in 1850.
Moreover, the world's 13 hottest years since records began are all from the last 15 years, the UN weather organisation said.
(c) 2011 AFP
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Can AGWite models explain 1900?
But then this is only France, not the planet.
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On a side note, part of China had the coldest winter in 100 yrs last winter so welcome to the extremes.
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France has had hottest year since 1900.
What happened in 1900 - Oh yeh all that population and gas guslers.
The warmist never give up. I can't hear you La, La, La.
I suggest warmist everywhere find a new way to make an honest living, instead of this steady diet of doom and gloom CAGW.
Jan 01, 2012
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Are there vineyards in Scotland and Newfoundland, or dairy farms in Greenland? If not, we have a ways to go yet to beat the nice warm temperatures of A.D. 850-1350.
Freeman Dyson and I still believe the polar bears will be fine.
Jan 01, 2012
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The trend line for the 12 year rolling average of the global temperature therefore continues upward.
What happened to the global cooling that the Denialists were lying about?
Jan 01, 2012
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He is very old now and Alzheimer's is a crewel disease that Denialists are exploiting.
"Freeman Dyson and I still believe the polar bears will be fine." - Shootist
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By Gerald Traufetter
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And England has had it's second warmest year on record
Global temperatures will come in the top 10 warmest years on record. Probably number 7 or 8.
The smoothed trend in global average temperatures continues upward.
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But this one is....
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"But then this is only France, not the planet." - RyggTard
Global Average anomaly for this year .53 to .54. making it the 7 or 8th warmest year ever recorded.
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What happened to the Cooling Trend that you and your Libertarian brothers in crime have been lying about, RyggTard?
Jan 02, 2012
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And to the commenter of 1900 being so hot, that was just the time frame used fool. There where many records broken in the good old USA too. Texas, Kansas, Arkansas this summer, the flooding of the snake river how soon we forget.