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FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2015 file photo, a hotel guest carries his shoes as he is escorted to his car along in Miami Beach, Fla. The street flooding was in part caused by high tides due to the lunar cycle, according to the National Weather Service. A new scientific report finds man-made climate change played some kind of role in two dozen extreme weather events around the world in 2015. But it also detected no global warming fingerprints in a handful of other weird weather instances. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File) (AP)

Global warming’s fingerprints are all over extreme weather

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(AP)

Thirty years in the making: Antarctic surface melt more widespread than thought

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In this photo provided by James Balog/Extreme Ice Survey and Matthew Kennedy, the Trift glacier in Switzerland in 2015. Over the past decade or so scientists and photographers keep returning to the world’s glaciers, watching them shrink with each visit. Now they want other people to see what haunts them in a series of before and after photos. (Matthew Kennedy/Earth Vision Institute via AP)

Stopping the flow: Warming-driven glacier melt leads to “river piracy”

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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)

Soaring beyond 100: Early heat wave that bakes India is a sign of what’s to come

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California's snowpack is on track for one of the wettest winters on record after five years of drought. (AP)

California snowpack healthy again, but warming looms large

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(AP)

“A lot of bad luck”: Drought and severe weather fuels record Oklahoma wildfires

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(AP Photo/NASA)

Trump administration cuts funds for “critical” NASA missions

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Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) swimming beside melting iceberg near Arctic Circle on Hudson Bay (Getty Images/Paul Souders)

Winter stands out (and not in a good way): Arctic sea ice sets record-low peaks for third year

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In this Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016 photo, people gather on the sand at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. Sydney residents sweltered through the city's second hottest night on record and its hottest December night in 148 years, with many cooling off at beaches long after dark. A minimum of 27.1 degrees Celsius (80.8 degrees Fahrenheit) was recorded in Australia's largest city early Wednesday, Australian Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Jordan Notara said. () (Joel Carrett/AAP Image via AP)

Global warming had clear hand in record Australia heat

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(Weather Underground via AP)

NOAA cuts could stymie research, put lives at risk

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This image provided by NASA shows Arctic sea ice at it maximum, the lowest on record. The winter maximum level of Arctic sea ice shrank to the smallest on record, thanks to extraordinarily warm temperatures, federal scientists said. The National Snow and Ice Data Center says sea ice spread to a maximum of 5.607 million square miles in 2016. That’s 5,000 square miles less than the old record set in 2015, a difference slightly smaller than the state of Connecticut. NASA via AP) (NASA via AP)

Sea ice hits record lows at both poles

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FILE - In this July 26, 2011 file photo, drops of water fall from a melting iceberg near Nuuk, Greenland. Greenhouse gases more powerful than carbon dioxide are the focus of a global gathering this week in Rwanda, with Secretary of State John Kerry expected to arrive Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 to apply pressure for a deal to quickly phase out hydrofluorocarbons which are used in air conditioners, refrigerators, and insulating foams. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File) (AP)

How close is 1.5°C? Depends when you measure from

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It’s official: 2016 was the hottest year on record

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This Nov. 10, 2016 aerial photo released by NASA, shows a rift in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf. (John Sonntag/NASA via AP)

Earth keeps melting away: Large iceberg poised to break off from Antarctica

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FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2016, file photo, women run as the sun sets in San Diego. Winter, especially in the southern half of the state, has been dry, and rain and snowfall in the weeks ahead would have to be extensive to make up lost ground in the state, even with the current forecast of a series of early March storms heading directly toward California. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File) (AP)

Adios El Niño: Heat is on for 2017, just not record-setting

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FILE - In this July 21, 2011, file photo, an iceberg floats in the sea near Qeqertarsuaq, Disko Island, Greenland. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File) (AP)

Too hot to ignore: 2016 is days away from becoming hottest in more than 120 years

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FILE - In this Friday June 13, 2008 file photo, a polar bear stands on an ice floe near the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, Norway. Scientists said Friday, Nov. 25, 2016 that Svalbard has seen such extreme warmth this year that the average annual temperature could end up above freezing for the first time on record. (AP Photo/Romas Dabrukas, File) (AP)

Arctic shouting change: This year’s report card shows we’re not in good shape

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People enter the water near Huntington Beach Pier, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, in Huntington Beach, Calif. El Nino storms lined up in the Pacific, promising to drench parts of the West for more than two weeks and increasing fears of mudslides and flash floods in regions stripped bare by wildfires. (Mark Rightmire(/The Orange County Register via AP) MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT (AP)

Climate change had a direct impact on extreme weather in 2015

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(Reuters)

It’s been a record-warm autumn: November was the second warmest on record in most of the U.S.

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FILE - In this March 10, 2010, file photo, a 25-foot harbor patrol boat passes by the 399-foot U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star as it sits moored at a dock in Seattle. The United States' last vessel capable of breaking through the heaviest ice of the Arctic Circle, and resupplying the U.S. polar research station there, is scheduled to leave San Francisco Bay on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014. While Russia and China have dozens of icebreakers, opposition in Congress to funding means the U.S. has just one heavy-duty one, already a decade past its decommissioning date. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) (AP)

Runaway ice: Pine Island Glacier break reveals new mechanism for collapse

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Tom Moffitt stands on his deck as he looks at the flood waters on Friday, Sept. 23, 2016, in Shell Rock, Iowa. Authorities in several Iowa cities were mobilizing resources Friday to handle flooding from a rain-swollen river that has forced evacuations in several communities upstream, while a Wisconsin town was recovering from storms. (Brian Powers/The Des Moines Register via AP ) (AP)

Here come the rains: United States may see more downfalls because of climate change

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(Dusty Compton/The Tuscaloosa News, via AP, File)

Tornado outbreaks are becoming even more extreme, but less frequent

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An unidentified maintenance man clears snow from a walkway at Denver International Airport as a severe spring storm packing high winds and heavy, wet snow sweeps over the intermountain West forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights, Saturday, April 16, 2016, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) (AP)

Winter is coming, but not as severely: U.S. record highs will far outpace lows with warming

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A home builder works at sunrise, Monday, June 20, 2016, in Gilbert, Ariz., in an effort to beat the rising temperatures. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Heat march continues: 2016 is likely to become the hottest year on record

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