The
climate that most of us
grew up
with is
gone for good
On Tuesday, two government science agencies an**unced
that the first six months of 2016 were the warmest first half of any year on record.*
The data confirms what
climate scientists have been startled to see during the past several years — the Earth's
climate has made a step jump into a new, hotter era
with more intense and frequent extreme events.*
SEE ALSO:
June marks Earth's 14th-straight record warm month, catapults globe into new climate regime
One way to look at the recent
climate trends is to take the past 60 years of temperature data and break them into 20-year periods.*
The changes in the average temperature a**maly during these periods helps to show what a step jump the
climate has made during
most of our lifetimes.
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