Must-Read: Joe Romm: Hottest July On Record Keeps 2015 On Track To Crush 2014 For Hottest Year

Must-Read: Joe Romm: Hottest July On Record Keeps 2015 On Track To Crush 2014 For Hottest Year: “NASA reports this was the hottest July on record…

…So we are now in ‘bet the mortgage’ territory that 2015 will be the hottest year in NASA’s 125-year temperature record. In fact, 2015 is likely to crush the previous record–2014–probably by a wide margin, especially since one of the strongest El Niños in 50 years is adding to the strong underlying global warming trend…. Soaring ocean temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, which are characteristic of an El Niño, just keep climbing.

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August 17, 2015

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