Thursday, July 29, 2010

Warmest Decade On Record

I would suspect that readers of this blog are already on board with climate change. Each decade is warmer than the preceding decade. As the years go by, we are getting deeper into a warmer Earth. No doubt the next decade will continue the warming trend.

NOAA: Past Decade Warmest on Record According to Scientists in 48 Countries
Each of the last three decades has been much warmer than the decade before. At the time, the 1980s was the hottest decade on record. In the 1990s, every year was warmer than the average of the previous decade. The 2000s were warmer still.


More and more, Americans are witnessing the impacts of climate change in their own backyards, including sea-level rise, longer growing seasons, changes in river flows, increases in heavy downpours, earlier snowmelt and extended ice-free seasons in our waters.

3 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

Howabout growing palms in my backyard for the last ten yrs. That's right palms and I live in So. NJ not Fla. Oh and they winter over fine if your wondering. I call them my "Canaries in a coal mine" plants.

Jim Sande said...

This is a hard thing for me to wrap my mind around. Hard to realize that this is a trend that is continuing and that there doesn't seem to be anything going on to reverse to even halt the trend.

Glynn Kalara said...

Nothing will reverse it now. Our so called leaders don't care. They'll just buy real estate in Colorado in the Mts. Were all on our own now. The Climate disaster will not be broadcast or remedied.