Hey Sun, you missed this one. OOPS, it's from those evil scientists at NASA. Really Big Pokey Things
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Last decade warmest ever: NASA
Agence France-PresseJanuary 22, 2010
The past decade was the warmest ever on Earth, a new analysis of global surface temperatures released by NASA showed Thursday.
The U.S. space agency also found that 2009 was the second-warmest year on record since modern temperature measurements began in 1880. Last year was only a small fraction of a degree cooler than 2005, the warmest yet, putting 2009 in a virtual tie with the other hottest years, which have all occurred since 1998.
According to James Hansen, who heads NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, global temperatures change due to variations in ocean heating and cooling.
NASA scientists found a clear warming trend in the data.