E continua ...

Note:  The NASA results are not yet official, but should be Friday.  The figure above does not have the December data, but the final figure will look almost identical.

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• Past decade the hottest on record | Grist: "The first decade of the twenty-first century was the hottest since recordkeeping began in 1880. With an average global temperature of 14.52 degrees C (58.1 degrees F), this decade was 0.2 degrees C (0.36 degrees F) warmer than any previous decade. The year 2005 was the hottest on record, while 2007 and 2009 tied for second hottest. In fact, 9 of the 10 warmest years on record occurred in the past decade." 

• ambio: Malthus e as alterações climáticas: "Isto é, quando se apela a uma economia menos assente no carbono, as projecções do futuro de quem se opõe as estas restrições, partem do princípio de que tudo se manteria igual, excepto a restrição de carbono, esquecendo a força de transformação económica que, provavelmente, nos levaria para uma economia que não é nem a que conhecemos, nem a que conseguimos vislumbrar a partir da simples projecção do que seria esta economia com menos carbono."