Weather & Science
February Breaks Another Heat Record as Ocean Warms to New Levels
The world continues to smash through temperature records after a year of increased carbon-dioxide emissions from the energy sector.
Oil shipping tankers anchored off Long Beach at sunset in California.
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February was the ninth consecutive month to register as the warmest on record, according to a report by Europe’s Earth observation agency Copernicus.
Since June, every month has set a new high for the global average temperature during that time of year. February’s temperature was 1.77C warmer than the estimated comparable average for the pre-industrial period.