The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has in a preliminary report has concluded that last year the global mean temperature was 14.3 °C which makes 2008 "the tenth warmest year on a record that dates back to 1850." "The ten warmest years on record have occurred since 1997. Global temperatures for 2000-2008 now stand almost 0.2 °C warmer than the average for the decade 1990–1999." Climate scientists at the Met Office Hadley Centre and the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at University of East An More