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The World Just Had Its Hottest June On Record
| By By SETH BORENSTEIN
Posted: 07/21/2014
WASHINGTON (AP) The globe is on a hot streak, setting a heat record in June. That's after the world broke a record in May.
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And that's only part of it. The world's oceans not only broke a monthly heat record at 62.7 degrees, but it was the hottest the oceans have been on record no matter what the month, Arndt said.
"We are living in the steroid era of the climate system," Arndt said.
Arndt said both the June and May records were driven by unusually hot oceans, especially the Pacific and Indian oceans.
Heat records in June broke on every continent but Antarctica, especially in New Zealand, northern South America, Greenland, central Africa and southern Asia.
The United States had only its 33rd hottest June.
All 12 of the world's monthly heat records have been set after 1997, more than half in the last decade. All the global cold monthly records were set before 1917.
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The first six months of the year are the third warmest first six months on record, coming behind 2010 and 1998, according to NOAA.
Global temperature records go back to 1880 and this is the 352nd hotter than average month in a row.
"This is what global warming looks like," Overpeck said in an email. "Not record hot everywhere all the time, but certainly a reflection that the odds of record hot are going up everywhere around the planet."
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The World Just Had Its Hottest June On Record
Posted: 07/21/2014
WASHINGTON (AP) The globe is on a hot streak, setting a heat record in June. That's after the world broke a record in May.
<snip>
And that's only part of it. The world's oceans not only broke a monthly heat record at 62.7 degrees, but it was the hottest the oceans have been on record no matter what the month, Arndt said.
"We are living in the steroid era of the climate system," Arndt said.
Arndt said both the June and May records were driven by unusually hot oceans, especially the Pacific and Indian oceans.
Heat records in June broke on every continent but Antarctica, especially in New Zealand, northern South America, Greenland, central Africa and southern Asia.
The United States had only its 33rd hottest June.
All 12 of the world's monthly heat records have been set after 1997, more than half in the last decade. All the global cold monthly records were set before 1917.
<snip>
The first six months of the year are the third warmest first six months on record, coming behind 2010 and 1998, according to NOAA.
Global temperature records go back to 1880 and this is the 352nd hotter than average month in a row.
"This is what global warming looks like," Overpeck said in an email. "Not record hot everywhere all the time, but certainly a reflection that the odds of record hot are going up everywhere around the planet."
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