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World temperatures continue to climb

World temperatures in January were the highest ever recorded for that month of the year, US government scientists said today.

“The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the highest for any January on record,” according to scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climate Data Centre in Asheville, North Carolina............

..........“The unusually warm conditions contributed to the second lowest January snow cover extent on record for the Eurasian continent,” it said.

“During the past century, global surface temperatures have increased at a rate near 0.06C per decade, but the rate of increase has been three times larger since 1976, or 0.18C per decade, with some of the largest temperature increases occurring in the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere,” it said.............