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Last month was the hottest January on record: NOAA

By Abby Smith

Published February 13, 2020 5:26pm ET

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Last month was the hottest January on record: NOAA — Surface melt water rushes along the surface of the Greeland Ice Sheet, through a supra-glacial stream channel, in July 2012 in the southwest of Ilulissat, Greenland. Polar ice sheets are now melting three times faster than in the 1990s, but so far it's added just less than half an inch to already rising global sea levels. (AP Photo/Ian Joughin) | Ian Joughin

This year’s January was the hottest since climate records began 141 years ago, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday.

In addition, all four of the world’s hottest Januarys have occurred since 2016, the scientists said. Previously, 2016 had the warmest January on record.

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