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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.
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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 Nino, according to the European climate service Copernicus. August's sizzle also helped push the globe and the Un...

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