Last year was the hottest in earth’s recorded history, scientists reported today, underscoring scientific warnings about the risks of runaway emissions and undermining claims by climate-change contrarians that global warming had stopped. Extreme heat blanketed Alaska and much of the western United States last year. Several European countries set temperature records. The ocean surface was unusually warm virtually everywhere except around Antarctica, scientists said, providing the energy that fueled damaging Pacific storms. In the annals of climatology, 2014 now surpasses 2010 as the warmest year in a global temperature record that stretches back to 1880. PS Today its nearly 60 degrees at the University of Denver
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 22:24:46 +0000
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