Jan 9th 2013, 16:06 by Economist.com
The hottest places on Earth
THE world is getting warmer. Globally, the ten hottest years on record have all been in the past 15 years. And national records are being broken too as climatic extremes are becoming more common. On January 8th, America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration announced that 2012 was the country's hottest year yet. The average national temperature of 55.3°F (12.9°C) was 1.0°F (0.6°C) above that of the previous warmest year in 1998. Last year was also the second most extreme, as measured by an NOAA index of weather extremes that includes temperature, precipitation, hurricanes and the like. Only 1998 was more variable. Australia is also experiencing some unwanted extremes.
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