2004 fourth hottest since records began
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The year 2004 was the fourth hottest ever recorded and the past decade was the warmest since measurements began in 1861, the World Meteorological Organisation said Wednesday.
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Sales of new homes rose to a record high in 2004, the fourth straight annual record. But activity in December barely budged after a big drop the previous month, suggesting the nation's red-hot housing market may finally be cooling.
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THE effects of an earthquake registering 8.1 on the Richter scale, the biggest recorded anywhere in the world in almost four years, were felt by residents throughout the State about 2am on Christmas Eve.
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Temperatures greatly above normal were recorded in places as varied as Australia and Scandinaviaâs Arctic islands, shattering a variety of longstanding records.
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Fourth-quarter results cap off record year for consumer products giant.
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The world was slightly warmer than  average in the first four months of this year, but 2007 may not  turn out to be the hottest on record, Britain&#39;s official  weather forecaster said on Tuesday.
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The world record for hot peppers has been broken!
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The year 2004, punctuated by four powerful hurricanes in the Caribbean and deadly typhoons lashing Asia, was the fourth-hottest on record, extending a trend that has seen the 10 warmest years ever beginning in the 1990s, a U.N. weather agency said Wednesday.
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A heat wave sizzling across the West showed little sign of letting up Thursday, with Las Vegas forecast to tie a record high and even northern Idaho expected to top 100 degrees.
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The arrival of Jeanne, the fourth powerful hurricane to slam into Florida in two months, makes it likely that 2004 will be the costliest hurricane season in U.S. history.
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Last year was the third warmest in Scotland since records began in 1914, according to WWF Scotland.
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Private forecaster AccuWeather said Friday record-breaking heat was expected to move eastward, resulting in temperatures that could reach 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) in New York City and Washington, D.C. early next week.
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This year is on track to be the second warmest since records began in the 1860s and floods in Pakistan or a heatwave in Greece may herald worse disruptions in store from global warming, experts said on Friday.
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SCORCHING summers, hotter than that of 2003, could become more common in Europe by the middle of this century. The risk has more than doubled because of human activity producing increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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The week-long heat wave in Southern California has claimed four lives and caused power outages to more than half a million customers, utility and local officials said on Tuesday.
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By 2050 heatwaves like that of 2003, which killed 15,000 in Europe and pushed British temperatures above 38C (100F) for the first time, will seem &quot;unusually cool&quot;, the Hadley Centre for Climate Change says.