January 30, 2012

Global temperatures for 2011

NASA’s annual summary of global temperatures is out.  2011 was not the warmest year on record, it was only ninth, a whole eighth of a degree cooler than last year.  One of the years that beat 2011 wasn’t even in the twenty-first century. [It was 1998.]

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »

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