Global warming

Five temperature records dating back to 1880 show how Earth's global mean surface temperature has risen and keeps rising. All show rapid warming in the past few decades, and all show the past decade has been the warmest.

1 November 2021

Only a few degrees of global warming? So what.

As Earth’s temperature has fluctuated back and forth between ice ages, its ideal temperature range for human survival is just as narrow as the ideal…

A delicate balance of ocean currents transport heat around the planet and drive global weather patterns. But greenhouse gas emissions are slowing a key Atlantic Ocean current to the brink of collapse, with catastrophic global weather implications.

And now we’re changing ocean currents — threatening to disrupt and worsen global weather

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg continues her weekly "Fridays for Future" climate strike. She's been protesting for 130 weeks.

Thunberg summarizes One Planet Summit: “Bla bla bla…”

Mother Nature attempts to ease tensions between rival siblings Snow Miser and Heat Miser in 1974's "The Year Without a Santa Clause."

2020: The year without a climate conference

John Kerry at the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris. Kerry helped broker the "Paris Agreement," a global pledge to limit rising global temperatures.

Climate guidance for the Biden-Harris administration

There was a lot more summertime sea ice in the Arctic in 2010, when scientists pictured above were there to collect ice and water samples. With less and less summertime sea ice, the Arctic absorbs more heat from the sun, which, growing evidence suggests, is altering weather patterns worldwide.

Dwindling Arctic sea ice has far-reaching effect on global weather patterns

The worsening climate emergency has prompted millions of people to protest worldwide against governmental inaction.

2019: Year of the Climate

Unlike Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) miscalculating the consequences of his actions, there is no miscalculating the cause and effect of greenhouse gas emissions. (Source: Lucasfilm Ltd.)

Visualizing cause and effect of global warming

By definition, the Green New Deal is not inconceivable. From "The Princess Bride:" Wallace Shawn, Robin Wright, and Andre the Giant.

Feinstein yet another Democrat to consider Green New Deal inconceivable

Then-President Ronald Reagan uses a graph to highlight the alleged benefits of his supply-side economics plan, yet the upward red-shaded trend in his graph is prescient in terms of rising global temperatures

13 February 2019

The only thing trickling down is global warming

Supply-side “trickle down” economics and tax-evasion havens have exacerbated inequality worldwide, and global warming is making things worse.

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