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http://www.wsj.com/articles/2014-ranks-as-earths-hottest-year-since-1880-1421427411
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A fisherman casts his line at Seal Beach, Calif., in 2014, the Earth’s warmest year on record since 1880, according to NASA and NOAA. AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
Associated Press
Jan. 16, 2015 11:56 a.m. ET
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WASHINGTON—For the third time in a decade, the globe sizzled to the hottest year on record, federal scientists announced Friday.
Both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration calculated that in 2014 the world had its hottest year in 135 years of record-keeping. Earlier, the Japanese weather agency and an independent group out of University of California Berkeley also measured 2014 as the hottest on record.
NOAA said 2014 averaged 58.24 degrees Fahrenheit, 1.24 degrees above the 20th-century average.
But NASA, which calculates temperatures slightly differently, put 2014’s average temperature at 58.42 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 1.22 degrees above their average, which they calculate for 1951 to 1980.
Earth broke NOAA records set in 2010 and 2005. The last time the Earth set an annual NOAA cold record was in 1911.
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/2014-ranks-as-earths-hottest-year-since-1880-1421427411
A fisherman casts his line at Seal Beach, Calif., in 2014, the Earth’s warmest year on record since 1880, according to NASA and NOAA. AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
Associated Press
Jan. 16, 2015 11:56 a.m. ET
27 COMMENTS
WASHINGTON—For the third time in a decade, the globe sizzled to the hottest year on record, federal scientists announced Friday.
Both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration calculated that in 2014 the world had its hottest year in 135 years of record-keeping. Earlier, the Japanese weather agency and an independent group out of University of California Berkeley also measured 2014 as the hottest on record.
NOAA said 2014 averaged 58.24 degrees Fahrenheit, 1.24 degrees above the 20th-century average.
But NASA, which calculates temperatures slightly differently, put 2014’s average temperature at 58.42 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 1.22 degrees above their average, which they calculate for 1951 to 1980.
Earth broke NOAA records set in 2010 and 2005. The last time the Earth set an annual NOAA cold record was in 1911.
For the rest of the article, click here: http://www.wsj.com/articles/2014-ranks-as-earths-hottest-year-since-1880-1421427411
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