Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Getting hot is not it?: Unprecedented climate extremes marked last decade, says UN

UN World Meteorological Organization analysis of rainfall and temperatures between 2001 and 2010 says decade was warmest since measurements began in 1850

It says the decade was the warmest for both hemispheres, and for both land and ocean surface temperatures. There was a rapid decline in Arctic sea ice and accelerating loss of net mass from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and from the world's glaciers.



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