Climate Change Facts

The earth isn't flat and the climate is changing.

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Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal.
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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The amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the upper layer of the oceans is increasing by about 2 billion tons per year.

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This increase is the result of humans emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and hence more being absorbed into the oceans.

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Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the acidity of surface ocean waters has increased by about 30 percent.

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Both the extent and thickness of Arctic sea ice has declined rapidly over the last several decades.8

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Global sea level rose about 8 inches in the last century. The rate in the last 2 decades, however, is nearly 2x that of the last century.

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the amount of spring snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere has decreased over the past five decades and that the snow is melting earlier.

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Glaciers are retreating almost everywhere around the world — including in the Alps, Himalayas, Andes, Rockies, Alaska and Africa.

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The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have decreased in mass.

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The oceans have absorbed much of this increased heat, w/ the top 700 meters of ocean showing warming of 0.302 degrees Fahrenheit since 1969.

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Most of the warming occurred in the past 35 years, with 16 of the 17 warmest years on record occurring since 2001.