Global Warming Update
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its British counterpart, the Met Office have released a report today that confirmed the existence of global warming.
According to the yearly climate change report released by the two institutions we live through the warmest period of the decade – but this decade was also the warmest for the last 50 years. This warming is part of a pattern observed for the last 50 years.
Over 300 scientists from 48 countries have measured the air and sea temperatures, the Arctic sea ice, the snow cover and the humidity in the Northern Hemisphere, using weather satellites, ships, buoys, weather balloons and synoptic land based weather stations. All the evidence collected by these scientists points to just one conclusion; the global warming is here and its presence can be felt by all of us.
Each decade, since the 1980’s, has been warmer than the previous ones – the temperatures have been rising approximately one-fifth degree Fahrenheit every 10 years. The effects are the heat waves, the heavy rainfall and the melting of the glaciers we have seen lately.
The report released by the two institutions does not contain data collected this year, but NOAA’s representative said that this is the hottest year of the decade and the annual average global temperature will most probably be exceeded this year.