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This data on monthly deviations from 1961-1990 monthly temperatures may be a bit hard to read, but it is interesting. It shows that the past decade has been warmer than 1961-1990, but it isn’t clear that the world is getting warmer in the 21st century. The source is the IPCC, a group which supports efforts to stop global warming.

The yearly averages are:
Year Average
1996 0.205
1997 0.462
1998 0.817
1999 0.487
2000 0.361
2001 0.553
2002 0.661
2003 0.641
2004 0.612
2005 0.745
2006 0.658

The monthly numbers are

Year Month 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Average

1996 0.14 0.307 0.079 -0.007 0.266 0.278 0.27 0.298 0.161 0.186 0.124 0.352 0.205

1997 0.351 0.519 0.299 0.199 0.284 0.527 0.457 0.45 0.6 0.521 0.559 0.776 0.462

1998 0.723 1.352 0.779 0.942 0.871 0.847 0.932 0.888 0.66 0.7 0.373 0.736 0.817

1999 0.693 0.928 0.343 0.344 0.396 0.441 0.456 0.425 0.561 0.437 0.272 0.552 0.487

2000 0.22 0.652 0.524 0.707 0.323 0.343 0.292 0.425 0.39 0.221 0.052 0.188 0.361

2001 0.616 0.495 0.658 0.521 0.528 0.472 0.529 0.742 0.514 0.526 0.671 0.366 0.553

2002 0.945 0.997 0.884 0.683 0.593 0.527 0.679 0.548 0.652 0.454 0.616 0.351 0.661

2003 0.813 0.555 0.436 0.524 0.746 0.764 0.524 0.579 0.642 0.661 0.605 0.842 0.641

2004 0.737 0.909 0.817 0.718 0.222 0.545 0.335 0.421 0.473 0.798 0.84 0.53 0.612

2005 0.774 0.555 0.769 0.894 0.668 0.829 0.795 0.629 0.746 0.859 0.881 0.542 0.745

2006 0.673 0.739 0.639 0.541 0.272 0.647 0.79 0.655 0.615 0.945 0.723 missing 0.658

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