El Nino

Temperatures have been steady for about ten years with a blimph in 2005 when the year had the second hottest average temperature recorded .. which meant it appeared to be on the rise again .. it's difficult to quite know what year to use as the year temperatures evened out a bit because 2005 was the second hottest year on record .. 1998 being the hottest .. but just by a fraction of a degree.

In my last post I set it at 2005 because of the high temperature that year .. the temperature was surprizingly high cause the 1998 one had been influenced by El Nino while the 2005 one hadn't .. which year to use???!!! Some scientists thought El Nino was going to influence the temperatures to reach a new high in 2007 but it didn't happen. I've typed in 1998 now .. but I felt easier about 2005 because of the El Nino situation plus the fact that it had been the hottest year recorded other than 1998 since records began and the difference was minute.

Some scientists predicted that 2007 would be even hotter but it didn't happen ..wonder about those sun spots .. though it may be more down to a change in El Nino. It's so difficult to make predictions because of all the changes that are happening so rapidly in the ecosystems at the moment.

The hottest years have been: 1) 1998 .. 2) 2005 .. 3)2003 .. 4)2002 .. 5)2004. (Climatic Research Unit)