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There's a 99% chance 2016 will be the hottest year on record
April continued a streak of record-setting warm months, and now experts are saying there's a 99% chance that 2016 will replace 2015 as the hottest year on record, according to NASA scientist Gavin Schmidt.
If it does, it will become the third year in a row that the record has been broken.
A dangerous threshold: Including April, we've now had 12 months in a row that have all beaten previous records
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