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| Global
Average Temperature and Atmospheric Concentrations of Carbon Dioxide,
1950-2002 |
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|
| Year |
Temperature
|
Carbon
Dioxide
|
|
(degrees
Celsius)
|
(parts
per million)
|
|
|
|
1760
(at the start of the Industrial Revolution) |
|
276.72
|
| ... |
...
|
...
|
| 1950 |
13.83
|
311.26
|
| 1951 |
13.97
|
311.74
|
| 1952 |
14.04
|
312.22
|
| 1953 |
14.11
|
312.70
|
| 1954 |
13.91
|
313.22
|
| 1955 |
13.91
|
313.73
|
| 1956 |
13.83
|
314.25
|
| 1957 |
14.09
|
314.77
|
| 1958 |
14.09
|
315.28
|
| 1959 |
14.04
|
316.00
|
| 1960 |
13.98
|
316.91
|
| 1961 |
14.10
|
317.63
|
| 1962 |
14.05
|
318.47
|
| 1963 |
14.04
|
319.02
|
| 1964 |
13.76
|
319.52
|
| 1965 |
13.86
|
320.09
|
| 1966 |
13.93
|
321.34
|
| 1967 |
13.99
|
322.12
|
| 1968 |
13.90
|
323.11
|
| 1969 |
14.00
|
324.60
|
| 1970 |
14.05
|
325.65
|
| 1971 |
13.90
|
326.32
|
| 1972 |
13.95
|
327.51
|
| 1973 |
14.18
|
329.61
|
| 1974 |
13.94
|
330.29
|
| 1975 |
13.98
|
331.16
|
| 1976 |
13.78
|
332.18
|
| 1977 |
14.15
|
333.88
|
| 1978 |
14.07
|
335.52
|
| 1979 |
14.12
|
336.89
|
| 1980 |
14.27
|
338.67
|
| 1981 |
14.40
|
339.95
|
| 1982 |
14.09
|
341.09
|
| 1983 |
14.34
|
342.75
|
| 1984 |
14.16
|
344.44
|
| 1985 |
14.13
|
345.87
|
| 1986 |
14.18
|
347.14
|
| 1987 |
14.34
|
348.99
|
| 1988 |
14.42
|
351.44
|
| 1989 |
14.28
|
352.94
|
| 1990 |
14.49
|
354.19
|
| 1991 |
14.44
|
355.62
|
| 1992 |
14.16
|
356.36
|
| 1993 |
14.18
|
357.10
|
| 1994 |
14.31
|
358.86
|
| 1995 |
14.45
|
360.90
|
| 1996 |
14.34
|
362.58
|
| 1997 |
14.38
|
363.84
|
| 1998 |
14.69
|
366.58
|
| 1999 |
14.41
|
368.28
|
| 2000 |
14.38
|
369.39
|
| 2001 |
14.53
|
370.89
|
| 2002 |
14.65 *
|
|
|
|
|
| *
2002 temperature is a preliminary estimate based on the January to
November average. |
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|
| Source:
Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Earth Sciences Directorate, "Global Temperature Anomalies in .01 C,"
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/data, updated December 2002; C.D. Keeling,
T.P. Whorf, and the Carbon Dioxide Research Group, "Atmospheric Carbon
Dioxide Record from Mauna Loa," Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
University of California, http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/trends.htm,
13 June 2002. |
For monthly global temperature data
from 1880, see
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata/GLB.Ts.txt.
For global atmospheric carbon dioxide
concentrations from 1958, see
http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/ftp/ndp001/maunaloa.co2.
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