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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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Last decade warmest on record, says UN report
2013-07-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: The first decade of the 21st century was the world's warmest in 160 years and was marked by a number of extreme climate events, a United Nations agency has found. A new report by the World Meteorological Organization says that in the period between 2001 and 2010, global warming accelerated since the 1970s and broke more countries' temperature records than ever before. The report, released on Wednesday, says the period was the "warmest decade on record since modern meteorological records began...
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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Earth Experienced 3rd Warmest May on Record This Year
2013-06-21 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Though described as preliminary, the most recent data from NOAA rank this year's May as the third hottest on record since measurements were first kept 134 years ago, averaging 1.19 degrees Fahrenheit (0.66 degrees Celsius) above the 20th century average of 58.6 degrees Fahrenheit (14.8 degrees Celsius). In doing so, it tied with 1998 and 2005 when combining average temperatures over global land and ocean surfaces, and marked the 339th consecutive month with temperatures above the 20th century...
Despite unseasonable cold in EU and U.S., March was tenth warmest on record
2013-04-22 14:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: While the month of March saw colder-than-average temperatures across a wide-swath of the northern hemisphere-including the U.S., southern Canada, Europe, and northern Asia-globally, it was the tenth warmest March on record in the last 134 years, putting it in the top 7 percent. Temperatures last month were 0.58 degrees Celsius (1.04 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 20th Century average worldwide, according to new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The month was...
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