“Earth’s average annual surface temperature is higher today than it was when record keeping began in the mid- to late 1800s, an indicator of long-term, global-scale climate warming.”
Tag: global warming
Winter sports athletes urge action on climate change
Dozens of Olympic gold medalists and other winter sports athletes sent a letter to President Barack Obama today urging action on climate and clean energy. From the letter, which can be found here at Protect our Winters: As professional athletes, representing a community of 23 million winter sports enthusiasts, we’re witnessing climate change first-hand. Last…
“It’s like Winnipeg, Manitoba, moving to Minneapolis-Saint Paul”
Using data from 1982 to 2011, scientist Ranga Myneni of Boston University’s Department of Earth and Environment and colleagues studied vegetation rates at different latitudes, and the relationship between changes in surface temperature and vegetation growth 45 degrees north latitude to the Arctic Ocean. And their findings, published in a study in the journal Nature…
Polar Bear Day: Action, education
It’s International Polar Bear Day, a day of action by Polar Bears International to encourage reducing our carbon footprints. And polar bears, after all, are in serious danger of extinction due to global warming. Polar Bears International encourages self-challenges today viaThe Thermostat Challenge by adjusting your thermostat a few degrees; installing a programmable thermostat to…
It’s getting hot in here
The fact the world is getting warmer isn’t a newsflash, or, it shouldn’t be at least. But just how much warmer is it getting? According to a Feb. 21 report from Climate Central: though the U.S. as a whole has seen a trend that raised annual average temperatures by 1.3°F, winter has seen the fastest…
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