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This 360° image is a new way to look at global warming

 

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The world is getting closer to the 2°C threshold. A new 360° image we made shows just how close. We combined monthly global temperature analyses from NOAA and NASA and compared that average against the early industrial baseline of 1881-1910.

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Flooding linked to climate change devastated Louisiana a year ago. The recovery is underfunded.

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In other news...

July 2017 tied last July as the hottest month on record according to NASA. The heat fueled record wildfires across British Columbia and contributed to Death Valley having the hottest month ever recorded on Earth.

There's some crazy stuff going on in Alaska right now and it's linked to climate change (of course). Much of Alaska's permafrost, a storehouse of ancient carbon, could be gone by 2050. Rising temperatures are also affecting the diet of brown bears, which are dropping salmon for berries as the climate changes. And don't forget wildfires. 

 

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