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According to the Huffington Post : ” The warmest year on record is a three-way tie: 2010, 2005 and 1998. So says the U.N. weather agency, providing further evidence Thursday that the planet is slowly but surely heating up. ”
” Average temperatures globally last year were 0.95 degrees Fahrenheit (0.53 Celsius) higher than the 1961-90 mean that is used for comparison purposes, according to World Meteorological Organization. ”
“The 2010 data confirm the Earth’s significant long-term warming trend,” said Michel Jarraud, WMO’s top official. He added that the ten warmest years after records began in 1854 have all occurred since 1998.
As the year 2009 is ending the World Meterological Organization reveiled in a report that this decade was the warmest ever recorded. This happens as each passing decade is warmer than the previous one.
What disqualifies any natural phenomenon as an explanation is the speed of the warming and the exceptional increase of greenhouse gases emissions for the past decade.
Climate change is already taking place and causing unrest and troubles all over the world. It is high time our representatives acknowledge the fact and act. Continue »
