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The Pine Gulch and Grizzly Creek wildfires have burned tens of thousands of acres on the Western Slope, leading to highway closures, evacuations and hazy orange skies on the Front Range made more pronounced at sunset. The view west from City Park in Denver, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2020.
It was more than the year of the pandemic; 2020 was also one of the planet’s hottest years ever recorded. It s a global trend driven largely by greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels, new data from U.S. and European scientists shows.
Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the United Kingdom’s Met Office said 2020 was the second-hottest on record, while scientists at NASA and the European Union’s Copernicus program said the year tied with 2016 for the hottest on record.
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