The last decade was the warmest on record, federal climate scientists announced Wednesday, with 2019 becoming the second-warmest year on record.
Global temperature records began more than 140 years ago in 1880. The warmest year recorded was 2016, which was just .07 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than last year.
NASA and NOAA are two keepers of the world's temperature data and independently produce a record of Earth's surface temperatures and changes based on historical observations over oceans and land. The results of this year's reportthan the average from 1901-2000, the report said. The world’s five warmest years have all occurred since 2015, with nine of the 10 warmest years occurring since 2005.
"We crossed over into more than 2 degrees Fahrenheit warming territory in 2015 and we are unlikely to go back," Schmidt said. "This shows that what’s happening is persistent, not a fluke due to some weather phenomenon: we know that the long-term trends are being driven by the increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere."The rising temperatures are causing increases in some extreme events, such as heat waves, wildfires and intense precipitation.
and faster-than-normal seasonal snowmelt, bloating rivers and causing authorities to issue flood warnings.Alaska is in a part of the world that is experiencing rapid temperature changes, the report said. The Arctic region has warmed slightly more than three times faster than the rest of the world since 1970.that have led to the deaths of 28 people since September, destroyed more than 2,600 homes and burned about 25.5 million acres of land.
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