Global Temperature Variation (up, Up, UP)

From the Guardian, UK… play this clip.

2012 was among the 10 warmest years on record, new figures show. This animation displays a progression of changing global surface temperatures anomalies from 1880 to 2012. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower than normal temperatures are shown in blue. Global surface temperature in 2012 was +0.55°C (1F) warmer than the 1951-1980 base period average, despite much of the year being affected by a strong La Niña