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Calif. heat destroys all previous records


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By Tom Randall, Bloomberg

The California heat of the past 12 months is like nothing ever seen in records going back to 1895. The 12 months before that were similarly without precedent. And the 12 months before that? A freakishly hot year, too.

What’s happening in California right now is shattering modern temperature measurements — as well as tree-ring records that stretch back more than 1,000 years. It’s no longer just a record-hot month or a record-hot year that California faces.

It’s a stack of broken records leading to the worst drought that’s ever beset the Golden State.

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  1. legal beagle says - Posted: April 13, 2015

    Nothing like heat islands and 40 million people to maybe cause a temperature rise. California is mostly desert. The IPCC lives in their own world of climate confusion with heat stroke affecting too many of its advocates or is it hypothermia?

  2. Hmmm... says - Posted: April 14, 2015

    Sounds like someone’s dog is suffering from heat stroke induced dementia.

  3. rock4tahoe says - Posted: April 22, 2015

    Legal. The Earth is at 400ppm CO2 now, CO2 is a “greenhouse” gas. 2014 saw another Global heat record broken.