And the hot streak continues. NOAA tells us the planet has just wrapped up its hottest summer on record. And, as chief meteorologist Bernadette Woods Placky explains, that puts us on track for the hottest year ever recorded.
This year is in the pole position to take the title for hottest year on record and it shows no signs of slowing down. August is the sixth month of the year to set a heat record, according to new data from the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) released on Thursday. Five of those months also happen to be among the 10 most
More2014 set a new mark for the hottest year on record. And while unprecedented heat has become almost common place, it's been a long time since the world set any global cold records.
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The final numbers are in: 2014 is officially the hottest year on record in the past 135 years, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced Friday. The record does not come as a surprise as it’s another marker of the sustained accumulation of heat in the atmosphere thanks to the unabated emissions of greenhouses
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In what has become a monthly refrain this year, yet another month has set a global temperature record, with June 2015 coming in as the warmest June on record going back to 1880. It follows other record or near-record hot months during the first six months of this year, so there’s a good chance 2015 will take 2014’s place atop the podium as the warm
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