experts disagree about whether such changers have caused the increase of approximately 0.5 ℃ in the earth's surface temperature that has been documented over the past century.Many scientists cite the fact that 1997 was the warmest year on record,following a decade in which 9 of the 11 ...
2015-2019 were the five warmest years on record while 2010-2019 was the warmest decade on record. Global surface temperature has increased faster since 1970 than in any other 50-year period over at least the last 2,000 years. On the current path of carbon dioxide emissions, temperature could...
The worldwide temperature records set last summer were so high “that it’s not surprising they would… clearly be the warmest in the past 2,000 years,” said another climate scientist Zeke Hausfather, who was not part of the study. “It’s likely the warmest summer in 120,000 years, ...
The 10 hottest years in recorded history have all been in the last 15 years; the 1990s were the hottest decade on record. The Midwestern heat wave of 1995 killed 669 people in Chicago. In 1996, we had a season of record heat spells, and 1997 was the single warmest year on record—...