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Why is 2016 smashing heat records?
2016-03-04 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Yet another global heat record has been beaten. It appears January 2016 - the most abnormally hot month in history, according to Nasa - will be comprehensively trounced once official figures come in for February. Initial satellite measurements, compiled by Eric Holthaus at Slate, put Februarys anomaly from the pre-industrial average between 1.15C and 1.4C. The UN Paris climate agreement struck in December seeks to limit warming to 1.5C if possible. Even the lower part of that range is extraordinary,...
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