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Here's Why That Doesn't Make Sense --- ## Transcript We are having just a series of months since June wrapping hottest on record and even from March 2023 through February 24th that entire period has been the hottest on record on this is 520 increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases, and there's a bit of booze from El Nino. But we know that Eleanor is not the only cause behind this so as we get into subsequent months of 2020 for the fact of Eleanor is going to decrease as what normally happens, but in that case of water would be interesting to see his brother, you know, we get substantial cooling or not. Because in the past we have seen that even if Elena is not there still getting all these kind of hot weather episodes, you know, because we expect that to be like really hot but it is the same time you are getting those kind of massive Heating and the Atlantic Tropical Atlantic and also part of the Indian Ocean. So we are having the three major Pictures of the word to Pacific the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean not working in Symphony to produce this massive spike in the in the sea surface temperature and this is also canceling because he can look at the Arctic Ocean and for February 2014 was also really hot global warming is dominating. It's not really know the weather did the time pattern is not really influence that much buy a shame. That is the end Nino and La Nina so that doesn't think so at the moment. We don't really know how the weather is going to be lets it be on June. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Global Hot Streak Continues With February Breaking Several Temperature Records","description":"For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole and the world's oceans setting new high-temperature marks, according to the European Union climate agency Copernicus. 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