So how can a tie for second be considered the hottest on record?

The 1930s were the hottest on record . NASA and IPCC are cooking the books for

political reasons .

Did you READ the USA Today story? Here's what it says:

2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year of the global surface temperature record, according to data released today by the National Climatic Data Center. Records began in 1880. The Earth's temperature was 1.12 degrees F above the 20th-century average, which was the same as 2005.

It was the 34th-consecutive year that the global temperature were above average, according to the data center. The last below-average year was 1976.

The global land surface temperatures for 2010 were the warmest on record at 1.8 F above the 20th-century average...

Nine of the Earth's 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 2001, and all 12 of the warmest years have occurred since 1997.

The global average surface temperature has risen more than 1 degree since the start of the 20th century. Most notable, within the past three decades, the rate of warming in global temperatures has been approximately three times greater than the century scale trend.

In a separate global temperature report released last week, 2010 finished in a photo finish with 1998 for the warmest year in the 32-year satellite temperature record, according to John Christy, professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.

According to Christy, 2010 was only 0.02 degree F cooler than 1998, an amount that is not statistically significant.

Jan 12, 2011

"NASA will issue its report as soon as this week and the UK Met Office's Hadley Center will report later this month. The U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization will have the final say when it releases its report around the end of the month."

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=2...

<<Hello, in sports you don't win if you are within .0001 seconds of someone else.>>

Science and statistics cannot be compared to sports.

From the article: "...an amount that is not statistically significant."

Statistically significant being the key words here.

Look at the hacked e-mails from global warming scientists and you should see your answer..It's like this,they will do or say anything to support their cause