{"id":2930,"date":"2014-04-08T22:04:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T02:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/sustainability\/?page_id=2930"},"modified":"2016-04-26T13:05:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T17:05:41","slug":"events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/sustainability\/home-page\/events\/","title":{"rendered":"Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"Top\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>January 2016<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>2015 was Earth&#8217;s warmest year by widest margin on record<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/sotc\/global\/201513\" target=\"_blank\">NOAA Global Summary Information &#8211; Annual 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>December temperature departures were the highest of the 136-year record<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/sotc\/global\/201512\" target=\"_blank\"> Dec 2015 temperature was 1.11\u00b0C (2.00\u00b0F) above the 20th Century average<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>August 2015<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Planet Earth has never, in recorded history, had a hotter summer than 2015<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/sotc\/summary-info\/global\/201507\" target=\"_blank\">NOAA Global Summary Information &#8211; July 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>97% probability that 2015 will become the warmest year since records began in 1880<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2015\/09\/15\/the-summer-of-2015-was-earths-hottest-on-record-nasa-data-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">Multiple datasets show summer of 2015 was Earth\u2019s hottest<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>May 2015<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Tracking the Pace of Climate Change<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalchange.gov\/browse\/indicators\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Global Change Research Program Releases Climate Change Indicators<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>March 2015<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Greenhouse Gas Benchmark Reached<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/research.noaa.gov\/News\/NewsArchive\/LatestNews\/TabId\/684\/ArtMID\/1768\/ArticleID\/11153\/Greenhouse-gas-benchmark-reached-.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">CO2 Concentrations Surpass 400 ppm Globally<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>January 2015<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>CO2 Above 400 ppm<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecentral.org\/news\/2015-begins-with-co2-above-400-ppm-mark-18534\" target=\"_blank\">2015 Begins With CO2 Above 400 PPM Mark<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>December 2014<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>2014 Officially Hottest Year On Record<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2015-01\/nsfc-nnf011615.php\" target=\"_blank\">NASA, NOAA find 2014 warmest year in modern record<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/sotc\/summary-info\/global\/2014\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Global Summary Information &#8211; December 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/17\/science\/earth\/2014-was-hottest-year-on-record-surpassing-2010.html\" target=\"_blank\">2014 Breaks Heat Record, Challenging Global Warming Skeptics<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>April 2014<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>The first month, for Millions of Years, with atmospheric CO2 levels above 400 ppm<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecentral.org\/news\/april-will-be-first-month-with-co2-levels-above-400-ppm-17331\" target=\"_blank\">April Will Be First Month With CO2 Levels Above 400 PPM<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/first-time-in-800000-years-aprils-co2-levels-above-400-ppm\/\" target=\"_blank\">First time in 800,000 years: April&#8217;s CO2 levels above 400 ppm<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"#Top\"><strong>Back To Top<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 2016 2015 was Earth&#8217;s warmest year by widest margin on record NOAA Global Summary Information &#8211; 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