Congrats, we did it, 2014 was the hottest year ever, yay
(This is a pretty ironic post considering this week’s OKTBS video is about cold)
This week, NASA announced that 2014 was the hottest year since 1880, according to temperature records collected from thousands of stations distributed around the globe. You can find out more about the bad news here, and in this video put together by the folks at NASA Goddard:
To make matters worse, nine of the ten warmest years on record have occurred since the year 2000.
People who deny humans’ role in climate change like to claim that there’s been a “pause” in Earth’s warming as a way to poke holes in the science. It was the most common response from deniers after I released my recent vivideos about climate change on the OKTBS YouTube channel. I have no idea where these people are getting their information, but… well, the data speaks for itself.
It’s getting hotter, faster. A majority of Americans agree with this (although their politicial leaders often do not).
When will it be enough to act?
I don’t want to write the same story in 2016.
