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<\/div>\nThe report said temperatures were above average over southern and central Europe<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Earth had its second-warmest March on record with Antarctic sea ice shrinking to its second-lowest extent, the EU’s climate monitoring agency said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
“The month was jointly the second warmest March globally,” said a report from the Copernicus Climate Change Service.<\/p>\n
The report is based on computer-generated analyses using billions of measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and weather stations around the world.<\/p>\n
It said temperatures were above average over southern and central Europe and below average over most of northern Europe.<\/p>\n
They were far warmer than average over much of North Africa, southwestern Russia, Asia, northeastern North America, South America including drought-stricken Argentina, Australia and coastal Antarctica.<\/p>\n
Conversely, it was much colder than average over western and central North America, the agency said.<\/p>\n
Global warming is causing sea ice to decline and sea levels to rise, raising warnings that dangerous tipping points could be reached.<\/p>\n
Copernicus said Antarctic sea ice extent was the second lowest for March in the 45-year satellite data record, at 28 percent below average.<\/p>\n
It had reached the smallest area on record in February for the second year in a row, continuing a decade-long decline.<\/p>\n
In the north meanwhile, Arctic sea ice extent was four percent below average and joint fourth lowest for March on record, though concentrations were above average in the Greenland Sea.<\/p>\n
As temperatures rise globally because of human-caused climate change, Copernicus data show the past eight years were the eight warmest on record.<\/p>\n
A UN report warned in March that those record-breaking temperatures would figure among the coolest within three or four decades as global temperatures climb, even if planet-warming emissions drop quickly.<\/p>\n
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