Just past the hottest decade ever, it’s clear the globe is still warming
Oct 14, 2013
What is it about the hottest decade in recorded history that’s so hard to understand?The first decade of this millennium ― 2001 to 2010 ― was the warmest since measurements began 160 years ago. The earlier hottest decade was during the 1990s. And the record-breaker before that? The 1980s. These are undisputed facts.Nothing about this steady rise suggests our planet is doing anything but warming. Yet some people who have long resisted the consistency of this trend are now saying that climate chan