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Near-Record Warm Temperatures Fuel Deadly, Costly Weather Events in 2017 – UN

Impact of Hurricane Irma on Cuba
Wide shot of Havana, Cube in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. Photo: UNOCHA EFE/Rolando Pujol

GENEVA—(ENEWSPF)–18 January 2018 – The upward trend in global temperatures marked by record-shattering warmth in 2015 and 2016 kept pace last year, with the United Nations weather agency warning Thursday that continued pressure on the Arctic in 2017 will have “profound and long-lasting repercussions on sea levels, and on weather patterns in other parts of the world.”

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