The first decade of this century has been by far the warmest decade on the instrumental record according to the Met Office. New figures released today in Copenhagen show that, despite 1998 being the warmest individual year, the last ten years have clearly been the warmest period in the 160-year record of global surface temperature maintained jointly by the Met Office Hadley Centre and the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.

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