3 UAH campus police officers fired after controversial traffic stop involving Black teen Share Updated: 12:36 PM CST Jan 14, 2021 The Associated Press Share Updated: 12:36 PM CST Jan 14, 2021 The Associated Press The University of Alabama at Huntsville says three police officers were fired following a review of a traffic stop where a Black teen was asked if he had a dead prostitute in his car.On Tuesday, the school announced the termination of the former police chief, a captain and the officer involved in the October incident.A Facebook post from the teen s mother previously said her 17-year-old son was stopped by the officers for what was said to be a cracked tail light and one asked him several times if he had drugs or a dead prostitute in his car.The officers names weren t immediately released. Click here to read what UAH said about its UAHPD Action Plan on Wednesday.
Global climate trend since Dec. 1 1978: +0.14 C per decade
Global climate trend since Dec. 1 1978: +0.14 C per decade
Northern Hemisphere: +0.21 C (+0.38 °F) above seasonal average
Southern Hemisphere: +0.32 C (+0.58 °F) above seasonal average
Tropics: +0.05 C (+0.09°F) above seasonal average
Northern Hemisphere: +0.67 C (+1.21 °F) above seasonal average
Southern Hemisphere: +0.39 C (+0.70 °F) above seasonal average
Tropics: +0.29 C (+0.52°F) above seasonal average
Notes on data released January 2, 2021 (v6.0)
The anticipated La Niña-induced drop in global temperatures was apparent this month as the seasonally-adjusted global atmospheric temperature value fell by 0.26 °C to +0.27 °C (+0.49 °F). Since the global average absolute temperature also falls from November to December, the total cooling was 0.46 °C (K) or 263.80 K to 263.34 K (a drop of 0.83 °F).
The year 2020 is virtually certain to rank among the five-warmest years on record.
Students in Legazpi City, Philippines declare a climate emergency amid damage left by Super Typhoon Goni on November 8, 2020. Goni made landfall 30 miles northeast of Legazpi on November 1 with 195 mph winds, making it the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone ever recorded. (Photo credit: Bicol University Science Alliance)
November 2020 was the second warmest November since global record keeping began in 1880, behind the record set in 2015, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, NCEI, reported December 14.
NASA rated the month as the warmest November on record, as did the European Copernicus Climate Change Service. The Japan Meteorological Agency rated it as the second-warmest. Minor differences in rankings often occur among various research groups, the result of different ways they handle data-sparse regions such as the Arctic.