Top 10 global weather events of 2010

2. Warmest year on record (probably)

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A man walks next to Greenpeace activists forming the word HOPE with their bodies, during a demonstration near the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, Nov. 10.

According to NOAA, the globally-averaged temperature for 2010 will finish among the two warmest, and likely the warmest, in the 130-year-long climate record. (The current record was set in 2005, and so far the two years are in a statistical tie, which may be resolved as data compilation continues.)

Three months in 2010 were the warmest on record for that month.

2001-2010 is the warmest 10-year period since the beginning of weather records in 1850, the UN weather agency announced on Dec. 2.

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