2016 temperature difference from normal. (NOAA) |
A new international climate change report, prepared by 450 scientists from more than 60 countries, has published trends from thousands of data sets that — across the board — present a clear-cut picture of a warming world.
Led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the report revealed that heat-trapping gases, global temperatures, ocean heat content, and sea levels reached record or near-record highs in 2016. It is the 27th version of the report, titled State of the Climate in 2016, and is being published as a special 280-page supplement in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
NOAA released the report documenting irrefutable evidence of global warming, even as President Trump and high-level members of his administration have expressed skepticism about the phenomenon, especially the human role.
Five indicators from the report, in particular, offer a particularly compelling illustration of the changing composition of the Earth's atmosphere and the warming that has occurred in lockstep.
1. Concentrations of carbon dioxide, a heat-trapping greenhouse gas, are rising and hit a record high in 2016
Via NOAA: "The global average concentration of carbon dioxide hit a record high in 2016. The increase from 2015 to 2016 was 3.5 ± 0.1 ppm — the largest one-year increase in the modern record." |
Via NOAA: "In 2016, the global surface temperature was 0.45°–0.56°C (0.8°–1.0°F) above the 1981 — 2010 average — a record high, according to multiple independent data sets." |
1. The United States had its second-warmest year on record
Links
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