Ten facts on climate science
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People say the world isn’t really getting warmer, some years are just hotter than others, and it varies/goes around in cycles
The first decade of this century has been, by far, the warmest decade on the instrumental record. Despite 1998 being the warmest individual year, the last ten years have clearly been the warmest period in the 160-year record of global surface temperature.
Over the last 100 years the Earth has warmed by about 0.75 degrees Celsius and the speed it is warming at is gett...
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