Where can I find a chart of the average global temperature?

Question

average global temperature by year and month -- specifically October 2000.

Answer 1

The HadCRUT3 data set contains the information you are interested in See links 1 and 2 below. You will need to read the paper below to understand how to use this data set.

It is discribed in detail in this paper: P. Brohan, J.J. Kennedy, I. Harris, S.F.B. Tett and P.D. Jones, Uncertainty estimates in regional and global observed temperature changes: a new dataset from 1850. J. Geophys. Res, 111, D12106, doi:10.1029/2005JD006548. See link 3.