Latest State of the Climate: Yup, Still Getting Hotter - Bloomberg

Latest State of the Climate: Yup, Still Getting Hotter  - Bloomberg: "North America was largely an exception, with a relatively wet and mild year experienced in the United States. Europe and Asia had a high number of warm days, and Asia had the fewest cool nights on record.

Trends also continued at the poles. The seven lowest observations of ice in the Arctic have all occurred in the last seven years. The increased ice in Antarctica may seem counterintuitive. One reason is that winds have increased there in recent decades, a shift linked to depleting ozone and increased greenhouse gases. The winds directly contribute to increasing the ice extent.

The report, published by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, also comes with this interactive map of extreme climate events from 2013."



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