With the first six months of 2017 in the books, average global surface temperatures so far this year are 0.94°C above the 1950–1980 average, according to NASA. 2016 – including the first six months of the year – was influenced by one of the strongest El Niño events on record. Reality has debunked the ‘warming stopped’ mythFor a long time one of the favorite climate denier myths involved claiming that we hadn’t seen any global surface warming since 1998. Surface air temperatures, lower atmospheric temperatures, ocean temperatures, and sea levels are rising as ice around the globe melts. If we don’t get global warming under control, the consequences will indeed be bad.

Source: The Guardian July 31, 2017 09:56 UTC