Going for the record: Can anything stop 2012 from being warmest ever?

Christian Science Monitor: As the US heads into the final three months of the year, 2012 is likely to end up as the warmest year on record for the lower 48 states, according to an analysis from the federal government's National Climatic Data Center. That would mark the fourth time in the last 14 years that annual average temperatures for the continental US either set records or flirted with them – a cluster unmatched since the 1930s. Since January, year-to-date temperatures for the continental US have consistently run...

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