Overwhelming evidence is however showing that the current warming trend is particularly concerning as most of it extremely likely to be the result of human activity since the mid-20th century and is proceeding at an unprecedented rate. Over the last decades, human activities – particularly the burning of fossil fuels – have released enough quantities of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to trap additional heat in the lower atmosphere and affect the global climate. In the last 130 years, the world has warmed by approximately 0.85-0.9o C. Each of the last 3 decades has been successively warmer, with the five warmest years on record taking place since 2010. Not only was 2016 the warmest year on record, but eight of the 12 months that make up the year — from January through September, except for June — were the warmest on record for those respective months.
In its Fifth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of 1,300 independent scientific experts from countries all over the world under the auspices of the United Nations, concluded that the industrial activities that our modern civilization depends upon have raised atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels from 280 parts per million to over 400 parts per million in the last 150 years; human-produced greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have caused much of the observed increase in Earth’s temperatures over the past....READ MORE
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