Climate Recap of 2012

Adios to 2012 and hello to lucky number 13. Where did climate take us in 2012 and what can we expect for the next 12 -- scratch that, 11 -- months?

I've been writing these year-end climate recaps for four whole years and now they've gotten a whole lot easier, thanks to the NCDC's new ranking of the top climate and weather events of the past year. (You can just skip the rest of this blog and go straight to their list here.)

Even though climate is more than just temperature, that's the place you gotta start. How did 2012 stack up? For us myopic Americans, it was indeed a big year -- the warmest year on record for the continental U.S. That's a big deal. But, shocking as it may seem, the rest of the world does factor in, too, so to get the full picture, we've got to look at the global average.

Full Article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-anderson/climate-recap-of-2012_b_2585773.html