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NASA, NOAA say 2021 was sixth-hottest year on record

Episode Summary

Last year was the sixth-warmest year ever recorded worldwide, continuing a trend of hotter temperatures driven by human-caused greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels, NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Berkeley Earth said Thursday. POLITICO’s Kelsey Tamborrino reports.

Episode Notes

Last year was the sixth-warmest year ever recorded worldwide, continuing a trend of hotter temperatures driven by human-caused greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels, NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Berkeley Earth said Thursday. POLITICO’s Kelsey Tamborrino reports.

 

Kelsey Tamborrino is a reporter covering clean energy.

Nirmal Mulaikal is a POLITICO audio host-producer. 

Carlos Prieto is an audio producer for POLITICO. 

Raghu Manavalan is a senior editor for POLITICO audio.

Jenny Ament is the interim executive producer of POLITICO’s audio department.