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2012 warmest year on record for USA - Responding to Climate Change
2013-01-08 21:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: 2012 was the warmest year on record for most of the US, according to a new report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The latest data shows that the lower 48, all the states apart from Alaska and Hawaii, experienced the second most extreme year of weather as well as record high average temperatures. The average temperature for the year was 12.9°C, 1.7°C above the 20th century average and 0.5°C above the previous record set in 1998. In 117 years of data the record...
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