"Last decade warmest on record, says UN report"

Last decade warmest on record, says UN report

CBC News

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2013/07/03/mb-extreme-weather-climate-change-united-nations.html

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The first decade of the 21st century was the world's warmest in 160 years and was marked by a number of extreme climate events, a United Nations agency has found.

A new report by the World Meteorological Organization says that in the period between 2001 and 2010, global warming accelerated since the 1970s and broke more countries' temperature records than ever before.

The report, released on Wednesday, says the period was the "warmest decade on record since modern meteorological records began around the year 1850."

Average land and ocean surface temperatures from 2001 to 2010 rose above the previous decade and were almost a half-degree above the 1961-90 global average.




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