Earth is locked into’ Temperatures Not Seen in 2 Million Years #climatechange #auspol
2015 was the warmest year since record-keeping began in 1880, according to a new analysis by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The record-breaking year continues a long-term warming trend — 15 of the 16 warmest years on record have now occurred since 2001.
Scientific Visualization Studio/Goddard Space Flight Centre
The new research published Monday in Nature was done by Carolyn Snyder, now a climate policy official at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as a part of her doctoral dissertation at Stanford University, according to the Associated Press (AP).
Snyder “created a continuous 2 million year temperature record, much longer than a previous 22,000 year record. [Snyder’s reconstruction] doesn’t estimate temperature for a single year, but averages 5,000-year time periods going back a couple million years,”
AP reported.
“We do find this close relationship between temperature and greenhouse gases that is remarkably stable, and what the study is developing is…
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