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UN confirms 2014 'hottest year on record'
2015-02-02 11:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The year 2014 was the hottest on record, part of a "warming trend" that appeared set to continue, the UN's weather agency said Monday. Average global air temperatures in 2014 were 0.57 degrees Celsius (1.03 degree Fahrenheit) higher than the long-term average of 14 C (57.2 F) for a 1961-1990 reference period, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a statement. "Fourteen of the 15 hottest years have all been this century," said WMO secretary general Michel Jarraud. "In 2014,...
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Australia: Warm oceans make 2014 the hottest year on record, Mildura Victoria's hottest town
2015-01-17 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: Unusually warm seas helped drive annual global temperatures to a record level in 2014 and are likely to ensure this year has a similarly hot start, climate experts say. Two leading US agencies, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA, have declared last year was the hottest, based on data going back to 1880, adding to an earlier confirmation by Japan. Globally, average land and sea-surface temperatures were 0.69 degrees above the 20th century average, "easily surpassing"...
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Its official: 2014 was hottest year
2015-01-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Planet Earth set an ominous record last year as global temperatures rose to the highest level since modern measurements began, scientists said Friday in a report that heightened concerns about humanitys growing toll on the natural systems that sustain life. The year 2014 was declared the hottest year in a joint announcement by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, based on separate analyses of weather records dating back to 1880, when Rutherford B. Hayes occupied the White...
Labor, Greens pressure Tony Abbott to act on climate change as 2014 named hottest year on record
2015-01-17 05:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Labor and the Greens are pressuring the Government to do more to combat climate change, in light of a new report showing 2014 as the hottest year in modern history. The data from America's space agency NASA shows that not only was 2014 the warmest year recorded since 1880, 10 of the hottest years on record have happened since 1998. Researchers said the long-term trend was being driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases, particularly the burning of fossil fuels. Opposition environment...
Warm oceans drive hottest year on record with more to come, US agencies say
2015-01-17 00:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Naracoorte Herald: Unusually warm seas helped drive annual global temperatures to a record level in 2014 and are likely to ensure this year has a similarly hot start, climate experts say. Unusually warm seas helped drive annual global temperatures to a record level in 2014 and are likely to ensure this year has a similarly hot start, climate experts say. Two leading US agencies, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA, have declared last year was the hottest in data going back to 1880, adding...
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