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Unprecedented extremes and warmest decade since modern measurements
2013-07-04 05:35:37| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The past 10 years were the warmest since the start of modern measurements 160 years ago and it was also a decade of unprecedented extremes in the climate according to a report by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). Heatwaves in Europe and Russia, hurricane Katrina in the United States, tropical cyclones in South East Asia, droughts in the Amazon, Australia and East Africa and floods in Pakistan were all features of the last decade indicating a shift in the climate, the WMO said. Both...
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