Planet moving warmly into next decade

By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette

In this Sept. 29 file photo residents travel in passenger canoes through Makoko, a slum neighborhood built on stilts over Lagos Lagoon in Lagos, Nigeria.

A July 2007 file photo shows an iceberg melting in Kulusuk Bay, eastern Greenland.

Associated Press A couple look at the skyline from a coastal defense breakwater in Alexandria, Egypt, in a May 2007 file photo.

It dawned with the warmest winter on record in the United States. And when the sun sets this New Year’s Eve, the decade of the 2000s will end as the warmest ever on global temperature charts.

Warmer still, scientists say, lies ahead.

Through 10 years of global boom and bust, of...

Published: 12/02/2009