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2015 Hottest Year, 2016 Worse; 2014 Natural Disasters Displaced 20M from Homes; Motorists Flee California Wildfire
Smashing All Previous Records, 2015 on Track to Be Hottest Year Yet. Three of the world’s official climate reporting agencies agree that June 2015 was the hottest on record, and that this year is shaping up to be the hottest year yet. What’s more, scientists say this trend is likely to continue and that 2016 could very well surpass 2015′s record-breaking temperatures.
Natural disasters forced 20 million from their homes in 2014: Report. Nearly 20 million people were forced to flee their homes due to floods, storms and earthquakes last year, a problem likely to worsen due to climate change, but which could be eased by better construction, a report said on Monday.
‘We prayed to God’: California wildfire sweeps freeway, destroying vehicles. A few minutes before they had been on the vacation of a lifetime, but now Russell Allevato and his family were running for their lives from a raging brushfire that had trapped them and hundreds of other terrified people on a traffic-jammed highway connecting Los Angeles to Las Vegas.
