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Calif. Heads for Warmest Year As Drought Hangs On
2014-10-14 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Heavy precipitation fell across parts of the West in September, and while some locations saw top-10 wettest Septembers, much of the region is still mired in deep drought. Part of that is due to the excess heat that's afflicted the region this year, including what's been the warmest year to date in California according to U.S. temperature data released on Tuesday. In a role reversal, the normally parched landscape of the Southwest saw record rainfall while verdant New England had a top-10 driest...
NASA says 2012 was the 9th warmest year since 1880, blames global warming
2013-01-16 00:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: 2012 was the ninth warmest year since annual record-keeping began in 1880 say NASA scientists who cited rising greenhouse gas emissions as the chief culprit. "2012 was the ninth warmest of any year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures. With the exception of 1998, the nine warmest years in the 132-year record all have occurred since 2000, with 2010 and 2005 ranking as the hottest years on record," said NASA in a statement posted on its web site. "One more year...
America's warmest year
2013-01-11 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Charleston Gazette: Industrial and political leaders in coal-dominated West Virginia generally shrug off global warming, or even call it imaginary. They won't admit that greenhouse fumes from coal-burning are heating the planet. So they'll probably stay silent about news that America just suffered its hottest year in history. Federal climate scientists announced Tuesday that 2012 set a heat record for the continental United States -- 3.2 degrees above normal, and a stunning 1 degree higher than the previous record....
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2012 was America's warmest year on record
2013-01-09 00:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: 2012 was the warmest year on record for the contiguous U.S. according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In a report posted on its web site, NOAA said the average temperature for 2012 was 55.3°F, or 3.2°F above the 20th century average and 1.0°F above 1998, the previous warmest year on record. The agency added that 2012 was the second "second extreme weather" year on record based in on its Climate Extremes Index which evaluates extremes in temperature and precipitation...
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2012 warmest year on record for USA - Responding to Climate Change
2013-01-08 21:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: 2012 was the warmest year on record for most of the US, according to a new report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The latest data shows that the lower 48, all the states apart from Alaska and Hawaii, experienced the second most extreme year of weather as well as record high average temperatures. The average temperature for the year was 12.9°C, 1.7°C above the 20th century average and 0.5°C above the previous record set in 1998. In 117 years of data the record...