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Date of Publication: March 17, 2016
Year of Publication: 2016
Publication City: New York, NY
Publisher: Time Inc.
Author(s): Justin Worland
Newspaper: Time
Global temperature records continue to be broken as February 2016 has been confirmed to have had the most above average weather since modern record keeping began around 150 years ago.
“The average temperature across the globe in February reached 13.3°C (56°F), according to a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). That’s 1.2°C (2.2°F) higher than the average global temperature in February during the 20th century.”
January and February’s record breaking high global temperatures are positioning 2016 to be even warmer than the previous warmest year on record –2015.
Share your thoughts: Can these record-breaking events be more effectively shared and used to provoke changes in behavior and opinions? How do we avoid news of ‘another’ month or year of record breaking temperatures from becoming non-news?
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