Earth just had its 2nd-warmest October, and 2017 could be the 2nd-warmest year on record

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President Donald Trump may not acknowledge this, but October was the second-warmest such month on record, worldwide, according to new data released by NASA. 

There is now about a 94 percent likelihood that 2017 will rank as the second-warmest year, globally since at least 1880, when record-keeping began, according to Gavin Schmidt, who directs NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. 

With a temperature anomaly of 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit, or 0.90 degrees Celsius, the month barely exceeded the temperature departure from average recorded in 2016. In NASA’s temperature database, the warmest October on record took place in 2015, when global average temperatures were 1.9 degrees Fahrenheit above average. At that time, though, an intense El Niño event was emerging in the Pacific Ocean. Read more…

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