We will not debate the fact that the earth is warming, however. That truly is settled science. If you are a visitor with doubts, which is understandable given the amount of time and money being spent by those who have reasons to want to block solutions, here is a chart of the average combined air and sea temperatures across the globe in the past 130 years:
If that is not convincing, here are some facts:
- Global sea level have risen almost 7 inches in the past hundred years, but the rate that sea levels have risen in just the past ten years is double that of the last hundred years
- The 20 warmest years on record have occurred since 1981, and 10 of the last 12 years have been among the warmest ever. And for those who blame natural cycles of the sun, there was actually a solar minimum cycle in 2007-2009 that would ordinarily have kept temperatures down.
- Our oceans have warmed a third of a degree in the last 40 years – a huge amount of warming over such a large area.
- Glaciers are retreating, Arctic, Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have decreased in mass. For example, Antarctica lost about 36 cubic miles of ice between 2002 and 2005.
- Finally, there have been a record number of extreme weather events in the U.S. over the past decade