In the warmest year on record,Mother Nature wrought havoc across the country, with large swaths of the west coast ablaze during the summer and the north-east blanketed in snow for most of the winter2015 has been the warmest year, and globally,on record, with the lower 48 states of the US experiencing their balmiest autumn ever measured.
This kind of exceptional heat provided an appropriate setting for the Paris climate summit, and where 196 nations agreed to curb greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the sort of unsafe climate change that contributes to floods,drought and damaging sea level rises.
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Source: theguardian.com