Jan. 12, 2011 (USA Today) -- 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.
![[Ice floes are seen off the coast of Novia Scotia, Canada. 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. (AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle) ]](http://www.commondreams.org/files/article_images/2010_earthswarmest.jpg "2010_earthswarmest.jpg")
Ice floes are seen off the coast of Novia Scotia, Canada. 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. (AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)
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.
Warmer-than-average temperatures occurred for most of the world's surface. The warmest temperatures occurred throughout the high-latitude regions of the Northern Hemisphere, Canada, Alaska, the tropical Atlantic Ocean, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and northern Africa.
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