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Another warm year as Bali conference ends

12-13-2007 · EurekAlert!

Preliminary global temperature figures, released today by the University of East Anglia and the Met Office's Hadley Center, show that the top 11 warmest years have all occurred in the last 13 years. The provisional data currently places 2007 as the seventh warmest on records back to 1850.

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