recent climate data- NOAA/National Climatic Data Center

NOAA/National Climatic Data Center

2006 research on climate

NOAA REPORTS 2006 WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD FOR U.S.


http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2006/ann/ann06.html
According to the report -"U.S. and global annual temperatures are now approximately 1.0°F warmer than at the start of the 20th century, and the rate of warming has accelerated over the past 30 years, increasing globally since the mid-1970's at a rate approximately three times faster than the century-scale trend. The past nine years have all been among the 25 warmest years on record for the contiguous U.S., a streak which is unprecedented in the historical record. "