NOAA State of the Climate 2021: Indicators of a Warming Planet Continue to Be Evident A new State of the Climate report confirms that concentrations of the most dominant greenhouse gases—methane, nitrous oxide, and carbon dioxide (CO2)—reached new record highs in 2021. The gases are the three largest contributors to Earth’s warming, according to the NOAA. The annual global average CO2 concentration grew at its fifth-highest rate since 1958, the start of the instrumental record. […] SnowBrains | September 1, 2022 1 Comment
NOAA: Reporting on the State of the Climate 2019 This post first appeared on climate.gov and was written by Jessica Blunden A new State of the Climate report confirmed that 2019 was among the three warmest years in records dating to the mid-1800s with a short-term warming, but weak, El Niño influence early in the year. Related: NOAA: July 2020 Was Record Hot for Many U.S. States The report […] Weather WeatherBrains | August 13, 2020 1 Comment
NOAA: 2014 Was the Earth’s HOTTEST Year on Record In 2014, the most essential indicators of Earth’s changing climate continued to reflect trends of a warming planet, with several markers such as rising land and ocean temperature, sea levels and greenhouse gases ─ setting new records. These key findings and others can be found in the State of the Climate in 2014 report released online today by the American Meteorological Society (AMS). The report, compiled by NOAA’s Center for Weather and Climate at the National Centers for Environmental Information is based on contributions from 413 scientists from 58 countries around the world (highlight, […] SnowBrains | July 16, 2015 0 Comments
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