Mashable: On Tuesday, two government science agencies announced that the first six months of 2016 were the warmest first half of any year on record.
The data confirms what climate scientists have been startled to see during the past several years -- the Earth's climate has made a step jump into a new, hotter era with more intense and frequent extreme events.
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