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Australian Climate Statement 2009 Released5th January 2010
The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) has released the Annual Australian Climate Statement 2009 (5 January 2010), which illustrates that "Australia's annual mean temperature for 2009 was 0.90°C above the 1961-90 average, making it the nation's second warmest year since high-quality records began in 1910".
According to Environment Minister Peter Garrett, the statement confirms that:
• "[i]n the last six months of 2009 South Australia, Victoria and NSW all experienced their hottest July to December period on record;
• 2009 was the second hottest year in Australia on record and finished off the hottest decade in Australian history;
• 2009 is expected to be the fifth hottest year globally and finished off the hottest decade globally in recorded history; [and]
• [a] cooler-than-average global mean temperature has now not been recorded since 1985".
Mr Garrett also noted that the statement indicated that the patterns of the last year and the decade are  Further information
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