February 9, 2011
Graph of the Day: Indicators of a Warming World
By John Cook
30 December 2010 I’ve added another pic to the high-rez Climate Graphics. This one is a graphic summary of just some of the evidence for global warming. When someone tells you global warming isn’t happening, this serves as a visual reminder that you need to consider all the evidence to understand what’s happening to our climate. Signs of warming are being found not only all over the globe but in many different systems. Ice sheets are shrinking. Tree-lines are shifting towards the poles and up mountains (i.e., to cooler regions). Glaciers are retreating. Spring is coming earlier. Species are migrating to cooler regions. And so on…
The many lines of evidence for global warming in a single graphic
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