Both NASA and NOAA – US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – have issued a joint presentation on how climate change made 2013 one of the warmest year ever recorded.
It is worth showing to any climate change deniers you may know. According to NASA : ” NASA scientists say 2013 tied with 2009 and 2006 for the seventh warmest year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures. “
” With the exception of 1998, the 10 warmest years in the 134-year record have all occurred since 2000, with 2010 and 2005 ranking as the warmest years on record “
Here is a nifty video that shows how fast Earth has been warming in the few previous decades :
Meanwhile, extreme weather events have been increasing both in size and in frequency. So far, 2014 has seen :
- An unprecended drought in the US State of California ;
- A remarkable polar vortex in the Northern part of the United States ;
- Exceptionally huge floods in the United Kingdom ;
- The heaviest snowfall in decades struck Japan ;
- A singular heatwave in Australia that halted the local Open tennis tournament…
The list could go on but I think you got the point : global warming is making our planet less and less hospitable. If climate weirding were to continue, no doubt that we would see more of such horrible events.