2015 in review

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A fine upstanding poster


The warming of the world’s climate has reached a fever pitch in recent years, causing records to fall like dominoes.

In 2015, the planet saw a number of such records set, from the hottest global temperature measured to the largest annual increase in carbon dioxide.

Those records — along with numerous other indicators of the considerable change wrought on land, in the oceans and air, and to ecosystems — are detailed in the annual State of the Climate Report released by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The report, now in its 26th year and published as a special edition of the journal Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, was put together by 456 authors in 62 countries and provides a checkup of Earth’s health.




http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/2015-set-a-frenzy-of-climate-records/#
 
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