NOAA: 2012 Was Officially The Warmest Year On Record, Second Most Extreme

NOAA: 2012 Was Officially The Warmest Year On Record, Second Most Extreme: Last year was officially the hottest ever recorded for the lower-48 states. Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric tallied weather and temperature data for 2012, and found that the year was both the warmest and the second-most extreme for weather ever recorded for the contiguous U.S. According to NOAA’s latest “State of the Climate” [...]/p