Earth sets terrifying new temperature record

News of a heatwave around Australia to end summer was just the start of it.

Extreme heat means more extreme bushfires.

Shocking new data from NASA shows the temperature of Earth surged in January and February to the temperature targets set for the year 2100. The planet is now two degrees Celsius above the ‘normal’ mark – the point at which climate change becomes ‘dangerous’ to planet’s inhabitants.

February 2016 was Earth’s hottest February since records began in 1880, according to the US space agency, which Australian experts have described as an “awful” and “dismaying” result that may signal humanity has crossed a crucial tipping point.

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