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We just broke the record for hottest year, 9 straight times
2016-07-11 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: 2014 and 2015 each set the record for hottest calendar year since we began measuring surface temperatures over 150 years ago, and 2016 is almost certain to break the record once again. It will be without precedent: the first time that weve seen three consecutive record-breaking hot years. But its just happenstance that the calendar year begins in January, and so its also informative to compare all yearlong periods. In doing so, it becomes clear that were living in astonishingly hot times....
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India state aims to plant a record 50 million trees in a day
2016-07-11 03:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Hundreds of thousands of people in India's most populous state jostled for space Monday as they attempted to plant 50 million trees over 24 hours in hopes of shattering the world record. Officials in Uttar Pradesh have distributed millions of saplings to be planted across the state in a bid to get into Guinness World Records for the most trees planted in a day. The current record is 847,275, set in Pakistan in 2013. More than 800,000 people, including students, lawmakers, government officials,...
Heat wave lifts June to record hot temp for US
2016-07-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Thanks in part to the epic heat wave that sent temperatures skyrocketing in the Southwest, last month was the hottest June on record for the contiguous U.S., the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday. How temperatures across the contiguous U.S. compared to normal during June 2016. June was 3.3°F above the 20th century average of 68.5°F, beating the previous record set in 1933 by 0.2°F, according to NOAA data. That bump of heat comes amid what is the hottest year...
US has warmest June on record
2016-07-08 06:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Americas warm, wild and costly weather broke another record with the hottest June, federal meteorologists say. And if thats not enough, they calculated that 2016 is flirting with the U.S. record for most billion-dollar weather disasters. The months average temperature in the Lower 48 states was 71.8 degrees, 3.3 degrees above normal, surpassing the Dust Bowl record set in 1933 by a couple tenths of a degree, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Thursday. Every state...
Heat Wave Lifts June to Record Hot Temp for U.S
2016-07-07 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Thanks in part to the epic heat wave that sent temperatures skyrocketing in the Southwest, last month was the hottest June on record for the contiguous U.S., the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday. June was 3.3°F above the 20th century average of 68.5°F, beating the previous record set in 1933 by 0.2°F, according to NOAA data. That bump of heat comes amid what is the hottest year to date by a good margin for the world as a whole. Outside of the contiguous U.S.,...
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