As per World Meteorological Organizations (WMO), this decade has been the warmest on record and this year is likely to be the fifth warmest. The Copenhagen summit is trying to agree global action to prevent the temperature rising more than 2C above the pre-industrial average. Many low-lying small islands, including the Maldives and Cook Islands, want the temperature rise to be capped at 1.5C because any increase above that could result in sea levels rising more than a metre. As per the scientists who are working and noticing the climate changes has declared that, ” Since the 18th century, the global temperature has risen just over 0.7C – the most rapid rise since the last ice age. “

The Met Office, which is contributing on the Climate changes, said “We intend that as soon as possible we will publish the specific computer code that aggregates the individual station temperatures into the global land temperature record.” The Met Office today responded to criticisms about lack of transparency by releasing land temperature records gathered from more than 1,500 stations around the world.