Increase in Co2 Concentrations in the atmosphere. The link between c02 and rising temperatures is well established and this year Global Temperatures got an extra boost thanks to el nino, which brings warmer water to the surface of parts of the tropical pacific. That explains why february was 1. 77 degrees warmer than preindustrial temperatures, and why global average temperatures hit a record 1. 55 degrees above preindustrial levels over the last 12 months. It means we have temporarily at least breached the 1. 5 degrees threshold the world agreed to try and limit Temperature Rise to, to avoid the worst impacts of Climate Change. February 2024 was the warmest february on record globally, with an average temperature of 13. 54 degrees, above the 1991 2020 temperature. While this is remarkable, because, for instance, it is a tenth of a degree warmer than the warmest previous february, which was 2016, its not really surprising, because this has been the el nino year, where temperatures tend
Good morning and welcome to cnn this morning, it is sunday, march 10. Them, Isabel Rosales and grammar walker. Im victor blackwell. Thank you so much for joining us this morning. Were following Breaking News out of haiti. The state Department Says its evacuating nonessential personnel from the us embassy because of heightened Gang Violence. Cnns Patrick Oppmann is joining us live from the phone. Patrick, when did this start . So overnight last night, we know a us Military Helicopter did travel under the cover of darkness to portauprince, haiti and evacuated. We dont know how many, but us diplomats were told only us diplomats were evacuated from from the embassy because the ongoing civil unrest in haiti, Gang Violence that is essentially brought that country to a standstill, has made it too dangerous to have the embassy fully staffed. So theyre not closing the us embassy in portauprince, certainly. But they are reducing the footprint that number of spats there. And really the only way t
reporting from new york. josé diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m josé diaz-balart. this morning president biden vows to retaliate after three u.s. service members were killed in a drone strike on a base in jordan. it s the first u.s. service member deaths in months of attacks by iran-backed militants. we ll ask retired four-star general what retaliation could look like. back at home, senate negotiators are inching closer to a bipartisan border security deal as president biden promises to shut down the border if it means locking in an agreement. new this morning, e. jean carroll speaking out for the first time on camera since a jury ordered donald trump to pay her more than $83 million for defamation. and breaking overseas just a short time ago, king charles and the princess of wales both released from the hospital after medical procedures. we begin this hour with president biden vowing to re
because of an insurrection led by the leader of the wagner mercenaries that ended nearly as soon as it started. an apparent clash between wagner and russian troops which was followed by a fire at that oil refinery you see on your screen there. under the deal done, the kremlin says wagner troops will not face any legal action, but they ll sign new contracts with russia s defense ministry while moscow will drop its charges against prig prigozhin, who will go to belarus. wagner s leader says he agreed to that in order to avoid bloodshed. translator: therefore, realizing all the responsibility for the fact that russian blood will be shed from one of the sides, we turn our columns around and leave in the opposite direction to the field camps, according to the plan. the kremlin says it doesn t know where prigozhin is right now. what you see there is video of people cheering as he left ross stor-on-don where his troops seized military facilities on saturday. officials now tell c
s reproductive care from state to state, and how it could influence the 2024 race. as the 11th hour gets underway this friday night. good evening. once again, i m stephanie ruhle. in less than one hour, it will be one year since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. revoking the constitutional right to abortion that it had established. that decision coming from the conservative majority on the high court. the latest nbc news poll shows 61% of registered voters disapproved of that very decision. in the years since that ruling, abortion has been banned, or made unavailable, in more than a dozen states. and it is severely restricted in nearly ten others. today, president biden signed an executive order to expand access to birth control. his administration s latest effort to protect reproductive rights. late this afternoon, biden and vice president harris spoke about those rights. we stand for the freedom of every american, including the freedom of every person, everywhere