{"id":31301,"date":"2025-10-06T17:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/?p=31301"},"modified":"2025-10-09T16:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:54:14","slug":"global-average-temperature-in-eighties-warmer-than-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/2025\/10\/global-average-temperature-in-eighties-warmer-than-today\/","title":{"rendered":"GLOBAL AVERAGE TEMPERATURE IN EIGHTIES WARMER THAN TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AI Overview: <\/strong>In 1988 the average temperature was 0.612 F higher than the 1950-1979 average of 59 F, marking 1988 as the hottest year on record, continuing the 1980’s trend of record high temperatures. <\/span>That year’s temperature was also 0.252 F warmer than in 2024 at 59.360 F. <\/span>The British Meteorological Office and East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit conducted the research, which suggested a potential link to the greenhouse effect, though scientists advised a note of caution due to limited data at the time of this post.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Key Data Points:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1988 Temperature vs. Base Period:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>1988 was 0.612\u00b0F hotter than the 1950-1979 average.<\/span><\/p>\n

1950-1979 Average:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>The baseline temperature for comparison was 59\u00b0F.<\/span><\/p>\n

Comparison to 1987:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>1988 was 0.018\u00b0F warmer than the previous record-holder, 1987.<\/span><\/p>\n

Data Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>The research was conducted by scientists from the British Meteorological Office and the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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1980s Warming Trend:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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The 1988 results were part of a larger pattern of record-setting high temperatures throughout the 1980s.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Some scientists viewed this as strong evidence of a long-term global warming trend potentially caused by the greenhouse effect, where heat-trapping gases from human activities accumulate in the atmosphere.<\/span><\/p>\n

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GORE:<\/strong>\u00a0A group of 16 Senators led by Al Gore, Democrat of Tennessee, yesterday signed a letter to President Bush citing the findings and saying that the data “illustrates clearly that global climate change is real, that global warming is not a problem that will disappear if we ignore it and that there is an increasingly urgent need for policies that address these issues.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
“Dr. Phil Jones, a climatologist at East Anglia, said global temperatures and the six warmest years in order were, 1988, 1987, 1983, 1981, 1980 and 1986.”<\/div>\n
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Warmth In ’88 Is Found To Set a Record – The New York Times<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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They global temperature baseline at 59 F (15 C), which had been used since 1901, was lowered to (57 F (14 C) in 1998.<\/div>\n
Earth Temperature in 1998 Is Reported at Record High<\/a><\/div>\n
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AI Overview: In 1988 the average temperature was 0.612 F higher than the 1950-1979 average of 59 F, marking 1988 as the hottest year on record, continuing the 1980’s trend of record high temperatures. That year’s temperature was also 0.252 F warmer than in 2024 at 59.360 F. The British Meteorological Office and East Anglia’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437,304,305,338,220,357,230,309,312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-i-overview","category-average-global-temperatures","category-british-met-office","category-cru-east-anglia","category-global-warming","category-gore","category-ipcc","category-nasa","category-noaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31301"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31336,"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31301\/revisions\/31336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}