I was scribbling about global warming and went to the NASA website. As well as some fine pictures – they do have some of the world's best camera angles – the screen shows some key climate change / global warming stats. They are hard not to keep looking at:
carbon dioxide – 404.48 ppm
global temperature – up 1.4 degrees (F) since 1880
Arctic sea ice minimum – reducing at a rate of 13.4% / decade
land ice – reducing by 281 giga tonnes / year
sea level – rising by 3.5 mm / year
You could get quite gloomy, and that's before you let your mouse hover over these data for a more in-depth view ...
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