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Global heat stuck on high. Scientists say August was Earth's hottest month they've measured.

Earth cooked to its hottest month on record in August, blowing far past a key climate threshold, due to the dangerous double whammy of human-caused climate change and a supersized El Niño, according to the European climate service Copernicus.

Global heat stuck on high. Scientists say August was Earth's hottest month they've measured.
Image: Phys.org
Earth cooked to its hottest month on record in August, blowing far past a key climate threshold, due to the dangerous double whammy of human-caused climate change and a supersized El Niño, according to the European climate service Copernicus.

Originally published at Phys.org

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