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Global heat stuck on high. Scientists say August was Earth's hottest month they've measured.

Global heat stuck on high. Scientists say August was Earth's hottest month they've measured.WorldPing

Earth cooked to its hottest month on record in August, blowing far past a key climate threshold, due to the dangerous double whammy of human-caused climate change and a supersized El Niño, according to the European climate service Copernicus.

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