Fever chart: Earth had its hottest decade on record in 2010s

The decade that just ended was by far the hottest ever measured on Earth, capped off by the second-warmest year on record, two U.S. agencies  And scientists said they see no end to the way man-made climate change keeps shattering records.

If you think you’ve heard this story before, you haven’t seen anything yet,Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said at the close of a decade plagued by raging wildfires, melting ice and extreme weather that researchers have repeatedly tied to human activity. This is real. This is happening.

Shared On DLIKE

---