Thirsty Invaders, Chasing Heat
Date: Wednesday, July 21 @ 15:23:29 PDT
Topic: Enviromental Headlines; Climate Change
The Earth's atmosphere has been warming at the rate of +0.03 °C/year since 1975, a result of the rapid accumulation of heat-retaining carbon dioxide gas (CO2), which is an exhaust product of our combustion-powered industrial metabolism, feeding on fossil hydrocarbon fuel. This heating rate is unprecedented in the last thousand years. Global warming from the end of the 19th century to 1975 was +0.4 °C, by 2000 it was +1 °C; and if the present trend continues it will be +2 °C by 2028, and +3 °C by 2062.
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