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Breaking climate science and policy coverage as extreme weather events reshape communities. Keep tabs on the race to a low carbon economy, which may be bumpy as governments, climate tech startups and major oil and gas companies race to find their niche amid the changing energy landscape.

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2017 will be among the warmest years on record

The world is still on pace to eventually have warming that goes beyond 2°C above the pre-industrial average.

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<p>New federal data makes it abundantly clear that 2017 will be among the warmest years in the modern temperature record that dates back to the late 1800s.</p><div><figure><div id="av-2017-12-18-global-temp" style="max-width:100%" data-vars-category="embed" data-vars-sub-category="axios-visual" data-vars-asset-id="av-2017-12-18-global-temp" data-vars-iframe-src="https://graphics.axios.com/2017-12-18-global-temp/2017-12-18-global-temp.html" class="gtmView"><img class="axios-visual-newsletter-fallback-image" src="https://graphics.axios.com/2017-12-18-global-temp/fallbacks/2017-12-18-global-temp-fallback.png" width="1845" height="1506"/><img class="axios-visual-apple-fallback-image" src="https://graphics.axios.com/2017-12-18-global-temp/fallbacks/2017-12-18-global-temp-apple.png" width="1242" height="1563"/></div><figcaption>Reproduced from <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="NOAA, Global Climate Report - November 2017" data-vars-click-url="https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2017/11/supplemental/page-1" data-vars-content-id="745aea92-862d-4c61-97f4-3a0ce381037e" data-vars-headline="2017 will be among the warmest years on record" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2017/11/supplemental/page-1" target="_blank">NOAA, Global Climate Report - November 2017</a>; Chart: Axios Visuals</figcaption></figure></div>

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2017 will be among the warmest years on record