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Warming Earth heading for hottest year on record

By Seth Borenstein

Published October 20, 2014 6:46pm ET

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Warming Earth heading for hottest year on record — The last five years are hottest of the past 140 years, new data shows. | (AP Photo/ Nick Ut)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth is on pace to tie or even break the mark for the hottest year on record, federal meteorologists say.

That’s because global heat records have kept falling in 2014, with September the latest example.

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