Saturday, February 16, 2013

Record-Setting Heat Across the U.S. in 2012




Record-Setting Heat Across the U.S. in 2012
The average temperature across the contiguous United States in 2012 was 55.3° (3.2° above normal). This ranks as the warmest year since records began in 1895. by NYtimes

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Antarctica’s west coast missing an area of sea ice the size of France as temperatures peak 20C above average. Exclusive A vast area of the Bellingshausen Sea should be covered by sea ice by now, with one expert calling the loss of ice ‘depressing’

  The Bellingshausen Sea is 650,000 sq kms of sea ice compared with the 1991 – 2010 average. Photograph: Alex Ingle/Schmidt Ocean Institute...