Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight

As Cincy muddles through day two of record heat for mid-March, wolrd climate scientists are adding more pieces of the puzzle to the world's climate change conundrum.  The latest data confirms that 2010, not 1998, was the warmest year on record when taking Arctic readings into account.

Researchers have updated HadCRUT - one of the main global temperate records, which dates back to 1850.

One of the main changes is the inclusion of more data from the Arctic region, which has experienced one of the greatest levels of warming.

The amendments do not change the long-term trend, but the data now lists 2010, rather than 1998, as the warmest year on record.

The update is reported in the published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.

HadCRUT is compiled by the UK Met Office's Hadley Centre and the Climatic Research Unit (Cru) at the University of East Anglia, and is one of three global records used extensively by climatologists.

The other two are produced by US-based researchers at Nasa and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa).

And yes, the first attack on this is AHA EAST ANGLIA! CLIMATEGATE! YOU HAVE NO CREDIBILITY except for the numerous times that nonsense has been debunked.  Things are getting far worse out there.  Far more extreme weather events have been piling up in the US in the last several years, costing billions in damage and hundreds of lives.  It's only going to get more extreme.