Land And Sea Reach Records

This isn’t news, and yet it is. Both the globe’s land and ocean temperatures reached new records. (globally: 2.9F, 1.6C) They are both heating up. That’s news. Sadly, there’s no newness to that news because this has been the case for years and decades.

“That would mark the first full calendar year with average warming above 1.5 C, a level countries had agreed to try to avoid passing long-term.” The Conversation

Scientists continue to learn about the various causes and effects, but this is effectively a new field because we didn’t even start accurately measuring such global trends until recent decades. What we do know, is that the trend is up and that the climate and our impacts are a complex system that can’t be ignored.