6 reasons why global temperatures are spiking right now

  • Written by: Andrew King, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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The world is very warm right now. We’re not only seeing record temperatures, but the records are being broken by record-wide margins.

Take the preliminary September global-average temperature anomaly of 1.7°C above pre-industrial levels, for example. It’s an incredible 0.5°C above the previous record.

So...

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