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In this June 15, 2014 photo, a polar bear dries off after taking a swim in the Chukchi Sea in Alaska. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey, Brian Battaile)

These are the crazy climate records from 2016 you haven’t heard much about

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Red cross teams use boats to evacuate people after river Danube flooded the old town of Passau, southern Germany, on Tuesday, June 4, 2013. Raging waters from three rivers have flooded large parts of the southeast German city following days of heavy rainfall in central Europe. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Climate change has influenced timing of Europe’s floods

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In this May 24, 2015, photo a vehicle drives on a pier to be loaded onto an Alaska state ferry while people fish underneath the pier in Homer, Alaska. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

July brought record high temps to parts of Alaska and the west

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(AP Photo/Anupam Nath) (AP)

Extreme heat will hit India’s most vulnerable the hardest

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Downtown Miami (Getty/franckreporter)

Miami just had its hottest month on record

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Smoke rises from a wildfire near homes Sunday, March 19, 2017, in Boulder, Colo. Authorities said the small wildfire burning in the mountains forced people from their homes and is filling the sky with smoke. (Seth Frankel via AP) (Seth Frankel via AP)

Wildfire season is scorching the west

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((Nicolo E. DiGirolamo, SSAI/NASA GSFC, and Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory))

Despite summer snow, Greenland is still melting

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(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

How distant winds may be causing Antarctic meltdown

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(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Map shows warming’s fingerprints on weather

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At midway point, 2017 is second-hottest year on record

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People sunbathe on a beach in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, June 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Today’s extreme heat may become norm within a decade

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The west is on fire as heat records fall

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((Nicolo E. DiGirolamo, SSAI/NASA GSFC, and Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory))

Sunnier skies driving Greenland surface melt

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(AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Global warming tipped scales in Europe’s heat wave

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Sunnier skies driving Greenland surface melt

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FILE - In this Sunday, May 31, 2015, file photo, an Indian drinks water from a bottle on a hot summer day in Allahabad, India. India is launching programs to protect people from extreme heat in two high-risk cities, after a devastating heat wave killed at least 2,500 people across the country last year. (AP/Rajesh Kumar Singh, file)

Half of world could see deadly heat waves by 2100

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A villager herds his buffaloes as they enter the Daya River on a hot afternoon in the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar, India, Wednesday, May 27, 2015. In southern India, hundreds of people have died since the middle of April as soaring summer temperatures scorch the country, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout) (AP)

India’s punishing heat waves are becoming more deadly

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(Masahiro Suzuki/Shutterstock)

West Coast waters on acid trip; fishing industry in peril

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(AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

NOAA forecasts busy hurricane season for Atlantic

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(AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Happy (?) birthday temperature spiral

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FILE - In this May 1, 2014 file photo, irrigation water runs along the dried-up ditch between the rice farms to provide water for the rice fields in Richvale, Calif. The federal government will be pouring nearly a quarter-billion dollars into several dozen projects aimed at tackling the effects of drought in the West and restoring watersheds that provide drinking water to communities around the nation. The head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service, Jason Weller, said Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, that in addition to the federal funds, the projects will leverage close to $500 million from state, local and private partners. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

U.S. drought at lowest level in nearly two decades

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(James Balog/Extreme Ice Survey via AP) (AP)

Glacier National Park is losing its glaciers

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(AP Photo/John Amis)

A swath of states is experiencing the hottest year to date

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(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

The overlooked risk of levees as rainfall rises

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