Last year Australia's second-hottest: climate report
![The report puts three intense and exceptional heat waves in Australia on the list of the world's extreme weather events. [ABC: Audience submitted]](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200911/r472519_2370197.jpg "The report puts three intense and exceptional heat waves in Australia on the list of the world's extreme weather events. [ABC: Audience submitted]")
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The report puts three intense and exceptional heat waves in Australia on the list of the world's extreme weather events. [ABC: Audience submitted]
Lisa Millar, Washington
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A report on the state of the world's climate shows that Australia had its second hottest year on record in 2009.
The hottest year was 2005.
The report by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration puts three intense and exceptional heat waves in Australia on the list of the world's extreme weather events.
Tom Karl from the NOAA Climate Service says Australia had its second hottest year on record and global warming remains evident.
"The evidence in this report would say unequivocally yes," he said.
"There's no doubt about that."
In Antarctica the total ice sheet melt was the lowest in 30 years but warming trends in the peninsula are still five times larger than the world's average.
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