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‘Hottest period’ sparks climate fears


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Earlier this week, the State of the Climate report for the first half of 2015 was released, and Cambodia, along with a wide swath of other nations, was upgraded from light pink to fuchsia, demarking temperatures “much warmer than average”.

According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), this year the climate increased 0.85 degrees Celsius on land, and 0.88 degrees at sea, making this period the hottest on record since temperature data were first recorded in 1880.

The NOAA findings also noted that while El Niño factors contribute to rising heat – wind patterns that experts fear could cause record draughts in Cambodia – the effects are parallel, but unrelated, to the rising heat triggered by climate change as a whole.

read more: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hottest-period-sparks-climate-fears

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