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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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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...
2012 Smashes Record For Hottest Year In The Lower 48
2013-01-08 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: It's official: 2012 was the hottest year on record for the contiguous United States. In fact, it shattered the record set in 1998. The National Climatic Data Center says last year was also extraordinarily dry and drought conditions are persisting into 2013.
NOAA: 2012 Hottest & 2nd-Most Extreme Year On Record
2013-01-08 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: It's official: 2012 was the warmest year on record in the lower 48 states, as the country experienced blistering spring and summer heat, tinderbox fire weather conditions amid a widespread drought, and one of the worst storms to ever strike the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2012 had an average temperature of 55.3°F, which eclipsed 1998, the previous record holder, by 1°F. That was just off Climate Central's calculation in mid-December,...
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