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Article: EARTH WARMED UP IN '95\Surface temperature rose to record high.(News)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- January 4, 1996
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Byline: William K. Stevens The New York Times
The Earth's average surface temperature climbed to a record high last year, according to preliminary figures, bolstering scientists' sense that the burning of fossil fuels is warming the climate.
Spells of cold, snow and ice like the ones this winter in the northeastern United States come and go in one region or another, as do periods of unusual warmth. But the net result of these local variations was to make 1995 the warmest year globally since records first were kept in 1856, says a provisional report issued by the British Meteorological Office and the University of East Anglia.
The average ...