{"id":3261,"date":"2020-03-18T03:06:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T03:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh-2020\/?p=3261"},"modified":"2020-03-18T03:06:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T03:06:54","slug":"earth-experienced-its-second-hottest-february-on-record-this-year-noaa-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/earth-experienced-its-second-hottest-february-on-record-this-year-noaa-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Experienced Its Second-hottest February on Record This Year, NOAA Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <span class=\"author\"> <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/authors\/aristos-georgiou\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author noopener noreferrer\">Aristos Georgiou <\/a> <\/span> <time datetime=\"2020-03-13T13:22:21-04:00\" data-timestamp=\"1584120141\"> On 3\/13\/20, Newsweek.<\/time><\/p>\n<p>Earth just experienced its second hottest February on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration&#8217;s (NOAA) National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI.)<\/p>\n<p>Average global temperatures for February 2020 were the second highest for the month of February in climate records going back to 1880, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/news\/earth-just-had-its-2nd-hottest-february-on-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">the agency said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A statistical analysis conducted by NCEI scientists predicts that 2020 is very likely to be among the five warmest years on record. Currently, the warmest years on record are \u2014 in order starting with the hottest \u2014 2016, 2019, 2015, 2017, and 2018.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/earth-second-hottest-february-record-this-year-1492250?amp=1&amp;__twitter_impression=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full Article HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>photo credit NOAA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/sotc\/national\/202002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Climate Report &#8211; February 2020<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Aristos Georgiou On 3\/13\/20, Newsweek. Earth just experienced its second hottest February on record, according to the National Oceanic<span class=\"text-cutoff\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":3262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}