So back to really serious matters. The world is still having a very warm year. The daily global average temperature, which the graph shows as at 14,000 ft because it enables me to put in a record high and a long term average which the sea level one does not for some reason, continues to be the hottest recorded.
The smooth green/blue line is the long term average temperature; the purple is the record high; 2009 is the other up and down type of green; the light green with the box at the end of it is this year to date
