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Climate Report: Hottest Year, Highest Greenhouse Gas Marks, Record Sea Levels

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CLICK HERE - American Meteorological Society - State of the Climate in 2016 - Special Supplement to the - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society - Vol. 98, No. 8, August 2017 - (298 page .PDF report)

cnn.com - by Steve Almasy - August 10, 2017

The records highlighted in the "State of the Climate in 2016" report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sound ominous.

• Global land surface temperatures last year were highest in 137 years of record keeping.

• Sea surface temperatures were also at their highest.

• Sea levels were at record highs in the 24 years that satellite record keeping has been used.

• Greenhouse gas marks rose faster than any year and carbon dioxide readings were above a 400 parts per million average for the year for the first time.

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ALSO SEE RELATED INFORMATION WITHIN THE LINKS BELOW:

CLICK HERE - NOAA - Reporting on the State of the Climate in 2016

CLICK HERE - American Meteorological Society - State of the Climate in 2016

CLICK HERE - NOAA - Global Climate Report - Annual 2016

 

 

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