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UN: Last decade was warmest on record, but weather-related fatalities fell
2013-07-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: The first decade of the 21st century was the warmest decade on record and yielded some of the most extreme weather events drought, floods, heat waves, intense rain and snowfall on record in various regions of the world, according to an overview of the last decade produced by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). While natural swings in climate played a key role, those have been superimposed over a general warming trend in Earth's climate. The trigger for this longer-term warming has...
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