Global Warming is Real!

“Records, they say, are meant to be broken, but this one did not last long. An annual analysis of the world’s climate found that 2016 was the hottest year since reliable global measurements began in the 1880s — breaking a record set just one year ago.

The climate assessment, published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, was led by researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

More than 450 scientists from 60 countries contributed to the peer-reviewed report.

Some of that heat was absorbed by lakes, which showed record warmth as well. The Great Lakes were two degrees Celsius warmer than the 20-year average. Even Lake Baikal, in Russia, the world’s deepest and largest lake, was 2.3 degrees Celsius warmer than normal.

With heat came drought. In any given month, at least 12 percent of the planet’s land area was experiencing severe drought.”

-Taken from Circle of Blue’s Federal Water Tap Newsletter http://www.circleofblue.org/