2016 Officially Declared The Hottest Year On Record

Climate Central, Raw Story: Science
Thu, 01/19/2017 - 6:57am

2016 was the hottest year in 137 years of record keeping and the third year in a row to take the number one slot, a mark of how much the world has warmed over the last century because of human activities, U.S. government scientists announced Wednesday. 2016 is a “data point at the end of many data p...

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