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Hotter Extremes Belie Warming 'Pause'
2014-03-02 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Truthdig: If global warming has paused, nobody told the thermometer. Although global average temperature rises have not kept pace with greenhouse gas emissions in the last decade, the mercury has been higher than ever for longer than ever over increasingly larger areas of land, according to a new study in Nature Climate Change. Sonia Seneviratne from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and colleagues in Australia and Canada chose not to look at averages but at extremes of temperature. The...
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