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Earth Heating Up: 2014 Warmest Year in Modern Record
2015-01-18 23:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The year 2014 ranks as Earth's warmest since record keeping began in 1880, according to two separate analyses by scientists with two U.S. agencies -- the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA. The 10 warmest years on record, with the exception of 1998, have now occurred since 2000. This trend continues a long-term warming of the planet, according to an analysis of surface temperature measurements by scientists at NASA's Goddard...
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2014 warmest year on record NASA, NOAA
2015-01-18 14:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: For the third time in a decade, the globe sizzled to the hottest year on record, federal scientists announced Friday. Both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA calculated that in 2014 the world had its hottest year in 135 years of record-keeping. Earlier, the Japanese weather agency and an independent group out of University of California Berkeley also measured 2014 as the hottest on record. NOAA said 2014 averaged 58.24 degrees Fahrenheit, (14.6 Celsius) 1.24 degrees...
After the warmest year on record, West Virginia feels the heat
2015-01-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Fridays news that 2014 was the Earths hottest year on record could not have been timelier for West Virginia, where a dissident member of the Board of Education recently altered new teaching standards to reflect his personal doubts about climate change. The board member, L. Wade Linger Jr., didnt like the sound of a sixth-grade study plan mentioning the rise in global temperatures over the past century. So he had the language changed to: rise and fall. The temperature rises and falls all...
U.S.: 2014 world's warmest year on record
2015-01-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Philadelphia Inquirer: Despite a winter-long coming-out party for the polar vortex and the record snows around here, for the planet 2014 was the warmest in 135 years of record-keeping, U.S. climatologists said Friday. Averaged for the entire year, temperatures were 1.24 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average of about 57, according to the National Climatic Data Center, nudging out 2005 and 2010 by a mere 0.07 degrees. At a joint morning briefing, NASA also said that 2014 was the warmest on its database,...
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2014 marks warmest year on record worldwide, climate scientists report
2015-01-17 02:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Oklahoman: Although temperatures were cooler in Oklahoma, 2014 was the warmest year on record worldwide, climate scientists announced Friday. The record is the latest in a series of years with record warmth, scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported. The previous record was set in 2005 and tied in 2010. Climate scientists said Friday the overall warming trend is being driven by greenhouse gases, and is likely to continue. The announcement is based on separate,...
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