Sentences with phrase «u.s. second warmest»

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Environmental Defense Fund president Fred Krupp said the agreement is important because methane is responsible for about a quarter of today's warming, and the U.S. and Canada are the world's second - and fourth - largest emitters of oil and gas methane respectively.

It's almost certain that 2016 will be the second - hottest year on record for the contiguous U.S., with new data showing that November was the second warmest on record for the Lower 48, capping off a record - hot autumn (for the second year in a row).

It was the second warmest year on record for the U.S., helped by an incredibly toasty December in the eastern half of the country.

Every state is having a top 10 warmest year - to - date, a pattern which has the U.S. as a whole on track to have its second - hottest year on record (the planet is also having its hottest year ever recorded).

As the world's second - biggest polluter after China, a move by the U.S. to scrap the accord involving almost 200 nations would pour hundreds of billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and speed up the warming trend already taking place.

Power plants are the largest source of greenhouse gases in the U.S., accounting for about a third of the annual emissions that make the U.S. the second largest contributor to global warming on the planet.

The U.S. state experiences one of its warmest winter periods on record during the second half of January, including some temperatures that ran 40 degrees Fahrenheit (22 degrees Celsius) above average.

Now with the U.S., the world's second largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions after China, walking away from the accord, other countries would presumably have to ramp up their ambitions still further if they want to avoid the prospect of dangerous warming.

EDITION 12.45 Against formidable odds, Barack Obama won re-election to a second four - year term as U.S. President, which could bode well for important policy initiatives to address global warming.

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That fits with the fact that 2016 will be the second - hottest year on record for the U.S. during which 98 percent of weather stations had a warmer - than - normal year.

Not coincidentally, most of the surface warming in the U.S. during the past three decades has been in TMin rather than TMax (see second graph below).

The second report from the Energy and Water in a Warming World initiative, Water - Smart Power: Strengthening the U.S. Electricity System in a Warming World, takes up this challenge by exploring how energy choices affect the resilience of our energy sector in the face of both periodic drought and long - term changes in water availability.

Meanwhile, the Paris Agreement went into force on November 4th, far sooner than anyone ever expected, signaling a new era of international climate action — but, just a few days later, the United States, the second - largest emitter in the world, elected a new president who has called global warming a hoax and pledged to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement as soon as possible.