Heat streak on for 2017 despite not breaking records
Global warming drives 2017 to be among the warmest years in 130 years of records, though 2017 is expected to show a slight dip from 2016. Met Office forecasters project 2017 temperatures 1.13 to 1.57 F above the 1961 1990 average, with El Niño lingering as a factor in prior years.
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Ban Ki Moon bids farewell at UN after decade in office
Ban Ki moon ends 10 years as United Nations secretary general lamenting ongoing crises from Syria to South Sudan but expresses optimism over a global climate accord and new UN goals to curb poverty and inequality. He will press the Times Square ball drop button as 2017 arrives, passing to successor Antonio Guterres.
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