NASA — Two key climate change indicators — global surface temperatures and Arctic sea ice extent — have broken numerous records through the first half of 2016, according to NASA analyses of ground-based observations and satellite data. Each of the first six months of 2016 set a record as the warmest respective month globally in […]
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Record Temperatures
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Disappearing Ice Sheets, Glaciers and Arctic Sea Ice
The U.N.’s panel on global warming warns: Over the last two decades, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have been losing mass, glaciers have continued to shrink almost worldwide, and Arctic sea ice and Northern Hemisphere spring snow cover have continued to decrease in extent (high confidence). • The average rate of ice loss 8 […]
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Also tagged Antarctic ice sheets, climate change, glaciers, global warming, Greenland, human activity, melting
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