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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is reporting that the combined average global land and ocean surface temperatures for the period March-May  2008, ranked seventh warmest, with May being the eighth warmest since worldwide records started in 1880. This is  according to an analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.

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