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Earth on track for its hottest year on record

The earth is still on track for a record-breaking year for heat.

That’s despite the average global temperature last month dipping to the seventh warmest since 1880.

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The globally-averaged temperature over land and ocean surfaces in November 2014 tied with 2008 as the seventh warmest for the month since record keeping began, said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Still, the combined average for the entire year so far, from January to November, was “the warmest such period on record, surpassing the previous record set in 2010”, NOAA said in its monthly report.

From January to November, the average temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 1.22(0.68 above the 20th century average.

“This was the warmest January-November in the 1880-2014 record, surpassing the previous record set in 2010 by 0.02(0.01,” it said.

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