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2012: Hottest Year on Record for Continental U.S
2013-01-09 16:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Temperatures across the continental United States soared in 2012 to an all-time high, making last year the warmest year on record for the country by a wide margin, scientists say. elated: "July Hottest Month on Record in U.S.-Warming and Drought to Blame?") "2012 marks the warmest year on record for the contiguous U.S., with the year consisting of a record warm spring, the second warmest summer, the fourth warmest winter, and a warmer than average autumn," Jake Crouch, a climate scientist at the...
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US seared during hottest year on record by far
2013-01-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: America set an off-the-charts heat record in 2012. A brutal combination of a widespread drought and a mostly absent winter pushed the average annual U.S. temperature last year up to 55.32 degrees Fahrenheit, the government announced Tuesday. That's a full degree warmer than the old record set in 1998. Breaking temperature records by an entire degree is unprecedented, scientists say. Normally, records are broken by a tenth of a degree or so. "It was off the chart," said Deke Arndt, head of...
Will hottest year ever force US to confront climate change?
2013-01-09 12:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Week: CLIMATE change may finally be thrust centre stage in the US as the country digests the fact that 2012 was the hottest year in more than a century of record-keeping. Man-made climate change barely featured in last year's presidential campaign, but the news that 2012's average temperature was 55.3F a full 1F above the previous record - may prove the tipping point for politicians and citizens alike. "Yes it's climate change," said Time, describing the new record as "a landslide, meteorological...
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Not Even Close: 2012 Was Hottest Ever in U.S.
2013-01-09 00:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The numbers are in: 2012, the year of a surreal March heat wave, a severe drought in the corn belt and a huge storm that caused broad devastation in the mid-Atlantic states, turns out to have been the hottest year ever recorded in the contiguous United States. How hot was it? The temperature differences between years are usually measured in fractions of a degree, but last years 55.3 degree average demolished the previous record, set in 1998, by a full degree Fahrenheit. If that does not sound...
2012 was hottest year on record in U.S., climate agency says
2013-01-08 23:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The year 2012 was the warmest on record for the contiguous United States, beating the previous record by a full degree in temperature, a government climate agency said on Tuesday. Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the average temperature in 2012 in the contiguous United States was 55.3 degrees Fahrenheit (12.94 degrees Celsius), 3.2 degrees above the average recorded during the 20th century and 1.0 degree above 1998, until now the hottest on record. The contiguous...
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