4 JULY 2013
A new report by the United Nations says that the first decade of the 21st century has experienced "unprecedented high-impact climate extremes," resulting in the warmest land and ocean temperatures ever recorded in history, UN News Centre reports.
The report, "The Global Climate 2001-2010, A Decade of Extremes," cites 2001 and 2010 as the decade in which more temperature records were broken than any other decade since measurements of land and ocean temperatures began in 1850. A rapid decline in Arctic sea ice and accelerating loss of ice sheets of glaciers accompanied these rapid changes.
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Source: HGHN