[Vision2020] NOAA: Average Temp. 2000-09: 57.9 F. Warmest on Record, Above the 1990-99 Average of 57.7 F.

[Ted Moffett]

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100121_globalstats.html

 NCDC scientists also noted the average temperature for the decade
(2000-09), 57.9 degrees F, was the warmest on record surpassing the 1990-99
average of 57.7 degrees F. value.
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http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/01apr_deepsolarminimum.htm

Despite the deep solar minimum occurring during the past few years, "the
quietest sun we've seen in almost a century," according to David Hathaway of
the Marshall Space Flight Center, the 2000-09 average global temperature was
higher, according to NOAA, than 1990-09.

This suggests that solar forcing is *not* the cause of the warming trend of
the past few decades, as has been concluded by the consensus among climate
scientists, given the recent 12 year low in solar irradiance, while global
temperatures remain well above the 20th century average.

>From NASA website above:

*A 12-year low in solar "irradiance": *Careful measurements by several NASA
spacecraft show that the sun's brightness has dropped by 0.02% at visible
wavelengths and 6% at extreme UV wavelengths since the solar minimum of
1996. The changes so far are not enough to reverse the course of global
warming, but there are some other significant side-effects: Earth's upper
atmosphere is heated less by the sun and it is therefore less "puffed up."
Satellites in low Earth orbit experience less atmospheric drag, extending
their operational lifetimes.
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