NASA and NOAA say 2020 was one of the warmest years on record
Earth's warming trend can't be flipped off like a switch. That's because each year, in our fossil-fuel dominated civilization, tremendous carbon emissions are emitted into the atmosphere, adding to an already big "pile" of atmospheric carbon. UN scientists, however, urge global society to ambitiously slash emissions in the next decade and beyond to stabilize global temperatures sometime later this century, perhaps at some 2 degrees Celsius (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above temperatures in the 19th century. This would take unprecedented, though necessary, efforts. For 44 straight years, Earth'...
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