EARTH GETS FIVE-PEAT ON ITS HOT STREAK
Global warming: Earth's record heat streak keeps sizzling for 5th straight season
Seth Borenstein, September 17, 2015 (AP via CTV News)
“Earth's record-breaking heat is sounding an awful lot like a broken record…The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [reported] August, this past summer, and the first eight months of 2015 all smashed global records for heat…That's the fifth straight record hot season in a row and the fourth consecutive record hot month. Meteorologists say 2015 is a near certainty to eclipse 2014 as the hottest year on record. This year, six of the eight months have been record breaking, with only April and January failing to set new records…Since 2000, Earth has broken monthly heat records 30 times and seasonal heat records 11 times. The last time a monthly cold record was broken was in 1916. Records go back to 1880…Scientists blame a combination of human-caused climate change and natural El Nino, a warming of the equatorial Pacific Ocean that changes weather worldwide…Global warming is like the steady climbing of stairs and then El Nino [exaggerates it]…” click here for more
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