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2015 On Course to Be the Warmest Year So Far According to NASA
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When all of the warmest years in a record that goes back hundreds of years start to cluster up in the past 10-15 years, something that you shouldn’t ignore is going on. The world is heating up, and the latest data from the US and Japanese agencies adds another boulder to the mountain of evidence for global warming. The independent work by both NASA and Japan Meteorological Agency show that July 2015 was the warmest month on record, and the chances are good – especially because of the strong El Niño – that 2015 as a whole will end up being the hottest year on record too.
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The graphs above show the month of July in the top left corner, the past 3 months in the top right, the past 12 months in the bottom left, and temperatures since 1880 in the bottom right.
But as you can see on the maps, there are regional differences. But what matters is theglobal temperature. You could have a whole country that has the coldest year on record while the rest of the world is burning up…
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2015/08/2015-on-course-to-be-the-warmest-year-so-far-according-to-nasa/
69 here today, unseasonably cool.