‘A Red Screaming Alarm Bell’ to Banish Fossil Fuels: NASA Confirms Last Five Years Hottest on Record
“We’re no longer talking about a situation where global warming is something in the future. It’s here. It’s now.”
More than a million acres of land in California were swallowed up by devastating wildfires in 2018, which NASA reported on Tuesday was the fourth-hottest year on record. (Photo: AP)
NASA scientists confirmed in a report Wednesday that 2018 was one of the hottest years on record, continuing what the New York Times called “an unmistakable warming trend.”
Last year was the fourth-warmest on record since scientists began recording such data 140 years ago, according to NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). This finding makes the last five years the five hottest years ever, scientists said, slapping down any question that the planet is growing warmer.
“2018 is yet again an extremely warm year on top of a long-term global warming trend,” said GISS director Gavin Schmidt in a statement.
“The five warmest years have, in fact, been the last five years,” he told the Times. “We’re no longer talking about a situation where global warming is something in the future. It’s here. It’s now.”
https://amp.space.com/43243-nasa-earth-climate-2018-temperatures-webcast.html … #NASA, #NOAA to Release Update on Earth’s Climate 2018 Global Temperatures Today… THIS is The State of Our Planet. Much more important than the dog and pony show of the #SOTU. #ClimateChange #Earth
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