If You're in the U.S., Get Used to More Record Hot Temperatures

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If You're in the U.S., Get Used to More Record Hot Temperatures
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In a clear sign of global warming's impact on the U.S., record-high temperatures are increasingly outnumbering record-low temperatures, a new data visualization shows.

The visualization (http://labs.enigma.io/climate-change-map/), which is based on data from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), does **t incorporate the most recent data from 2014 that shows cold records are outpacing warm records in the lower 48 states. However, this is likely a temporary speed bump in a longer-term warmup, especially as the summer approaches.

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The data is consistent with similar findings published in a peer-reviewed study (https://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/news/1036/record-high-temperatures-far-outpace-record-lows-across-us) in 2009, which found that this trend was unlikely due to natural climate variability alone. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/23/climate-visualization-us-warming/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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