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Record High Temperatures, Record Low Arctic Sea Ice – The Maritime Executive
Two key climate change indicators – global surface temperatures and Arctic sea ice extent – have broken numerous records through the first half of
Nearly ice-free Northwest Passage, August 2016. Credit: NASA/ Jeff Schmaltz
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The Maritime Executive
08-21-2016 07:48:33
Two key climate change indicators – global surface temperatures and Arctic sea ice extent – have broken numerous records through the first half of 2016, according to NASA analyses of ground-based observations and satellite data.
Each of the first six months of 2016 set a record as the warmest respective month globally in the modern temperature record, which dates to 18…
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