Tag: Global heating

• Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 10:33 UTC

  Scorched Australia: 2017 third hottest year on record

  

  Australia experienced its third-warmest year on record in 2017, according to the nation's Bureau of Meteorology. The national mean temperature of 22.75C was almost 1C higher than a 1961-1990 baseline, its annual report revealed. Only 2005 and 2013 were warmer, based on records kept for about a century.