Earlier this month, a heat wave melted the northern tip of Antarctica in only 9 days. The NASA images show that almost ¼ of the snow cover on the island was gone, a common sign of the ongoing climate crisis. By the end of the heat wave that lasted 9 […]
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The Consequences of Global Warming: Earth Had the Hottest January on Record
The new decade had the hottest start on record, according to scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. According to their data, this was the hottest January ever. Their records go back to 1880. The global land and ocean surface temperature this January was 2.05 degrees F above the […]