World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in Geneva said Thursday that 2010 was the warmest year since records exist, confirming a trend "significant" the long-term global warming.
This trend also contributed to further melt the ice in the Arctic Ocean, where ice cover fell to record levels in December, he wrote the WMO said in a statement.
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said global temperature last year was 0.53 degrees Celsius over a period of reference adopted by the scientific institution that goes from 1961 to 1990.
Last year "was the hottest recorded, along with 2005 and 1998, "he said, confirming preliminary assessments based on a 10 month period occurred in the global climate summit last December.
" The 2010 data confirm a significant trend to global warming in the long term, "said WMO Secretary General Michel Jarraud.
According to data compiled by WMO, based on statistics provided by the United States, UK and NASA, 2010 was a year of unusually warm in most parts of Africa, southern and western Asia, well as in Greenland and the Canadian Arctic.
Globally few places experienced below average temperatures, northern Europe and central and eastern Australia were the main exceptions. In parts of Scandinavia (usually low temperature) reached 10 degrees Celsius measured less than the norm.
as "bad news" Jarraud presented by the fact that last December the ice in the Arctic was the smallest since such measurement exists and its extent was only 12,000 million square kilometers, ie 1.35 million km square below the average between 1979 and 2000.
The consequences of this, the director of the WMO said the rise in sea level, in turn causing the erosion of coastal areas and serious problems on the inhabited islands and the fact that salt water is mixed with fresh water sources.
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