Here is some more data from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) confirming that Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2017 ranked as the second warmest since 1880.
Continuing the planet’s long-term warming trend, globally averaged temperatures in 2017 were 0.90 degrees Celsius (1.62 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the 1951 to 1980 mean. That is second only to global temperatures in 2016.
2016 held the previous record, 2015 was at par with 2017 - but those two years were affected by El Niño, while 2017 was not. www.bbc.com/...
Earth’s long-term warming trend can be seen in this visualization of NASA’s global temperature record, which shows how the planet’s temperatures are changing over time, compared to a baseline average from 1951 to 1980. The record is shown as a running five-year average.
Here are some more tweets, graphs and articles, you may want to send to your climate-change-denier friends.
Here is an article today in NYT about the devastation and disruption already underway because of sea level rise -
Here is an article in Time Magazine focusing on NASA’s IceBridge mission in the Antarctic -
climate.nasa.gov/… is also a good source for information and educational material.