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Proof: ‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak

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{"first_seen":"2026-09-21T19:01:36Z","headline":"‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"guardian","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/21/super-el-nino-temperature-record","v":1}

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0174c0a6ef8b88f1b78201f991edc5434ffc242754343aaef53a104956ebfb3a

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• The story pageNot sealed — no capture of the story page was requested.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-0174c0a6ef8b.json prints 0174c0a6ef8b88f1b78201f991edc5434ffc242754343aaef53a104956ebfb3a. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. There is no OpenTimestamps receipt for this record yet.
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

This headline has not been sealed. Headlines are sealed automatically within minutes of first being seen; older ones are sealed on request, and are then marked as a backfill.