Earth crushed temperature milestones this winter, edging closer to climate guardrail
 

Earth crushed temperature milestones this winter, edging closer to climate guardrail
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More all-time global heat records bit the dust this winter than were initially suspected, according to a new and shocking National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (**AA) report released Thursday.

Due to a combination of human-caused global warming and a powerful El Niño event in the Pacific Ocean, the month of February ranked as the most unusually warm month in the 137-year period of record, with global average surface temperatures running at 1.21 degrees Celsius, or 2.18 degrees Fahrenheit, above the 20th century average.*

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Global average surface temperature a**malies during the December 2015 to February 2016 period.

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