WMO — The Earth Continues To Warm As Nations Ignore Climate Science
The World Meteorological Organization has issued a report confirming that 2023 was the hottest year in human history.
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NASA: 2022 Was 5th-Warmest Year On Record
2022 effectively tied for Earth’s 5th warmest year since 1880, and the last 9 consecutive years have been the warmest 9 on record. NASA looks back at how heat was expressed in different ways around the world in 2022. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Kathleen Gaeta Editor’s Note: This release was … [continued]
2020 Climate Events Were Examples Of How Excess Heat Is Expressed On Earth
By most accounts, 2020 has been a rough year for the planet. It was the warmest year on record, just barely exceeding the record set in 2016 by less than a tenth of a degree according to NASA’s analysis. Massive wildfires scorched Australia, Siberia, and the United States’ west coast …
2020 Tied For Hottest Year On Record, NASA Analysis Shows
Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record, according to an analysis by NASA.
NASA & NOAA: 2010s Was The Hottest Decade Ever
NASA and the NOAA have both found that the last decade was the hottest ever recorded.
Climate Central: Millennials Have Never Experienced A Cooler Than Average Month — And Probably Never…
Gavin Schmidt, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies at NASA, says 2017 is on pace to being the second hottest year since 1880. Climate Central says millentials have never experienced a cooler than average month.
NASA: Charts Show The “Scorching” Quality Of 2015
Think Progress recently shared some great NASA charts, which were tweeted by Dr Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS), earlier this month. Here’s the first chart/tweet: 2015 will be a scorcher relative to all other years in the record. Even with sampling uncertainty: pic.twitter.com/wvTvzA1GC2 — Gavin Schmidt (@ClimateOfGavin) … [continued]
Obama Administration Announces Methane Plans
The announcement this morning by President Obama of a revised target for US methane emissions is not just another gimmick to shackle the American oil and gas industry. Nor is it new. Back in 1971, the world’s scientists thought that methane directly affected neither the climate nor the biosphere and … [continued]
4th-Hottest Year On Record — 2013
Originally published on ClimateProgress. By Ryan Koronowski Credit: NOAA/NASA While Americans deal with a wintery January and try to understand what a polar vortex is, one thing is clear: 2013 was one of the ten hottest years since records began in 1880. For the 37th consecutive year, global temperatures were higher than average. The … [continued]
