THE first 10 months of this year look set to make it the ninth warmest since records began, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said at the United Nations climate change talks in Doha on Wednesday afternoon.The years 2001-11 were all among the warmest since record-taking started in 1850, and not even the La Niña weather pattern’s cooling effect staved off the heat in 2012, the organisation said, releasing preliminary findings from a study that will be fully published early next year."It is likely 2012 will be one of the warmest years on record," said WMO deputy secretary-general Jerry Lengoasa.The WMO research is based on three sets of data: one maintained by the UK Meteorological Office’s Hadley Centre and the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit, the second belonging to the US’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the third from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies.WMO secretary-general Michel...
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