Warmest Eight Years Ever

NASA, NOAA and EEMA all agree that the past eight years have been the warmest ever recorded. Find out how this led to more extreme weather last year, and how we can address the climate crisis.

The weather has been changing around here since I was a boy in the 1960s. Winters are warmer, we have less snow, storms are more intense, and the temperature swings wildly from day to day.

Summers weren’t as hot as they are now, and we never had the intense, almost tropical thunderstorms we experience today. It seems like temperate spring and fall seasons are becoming a thing of the past.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) set up the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988. A great deal of the primary research to which scientists and policymakers refer comes from IPCC reports.

Since then, research in the climate change field has expanded rapidly. Today, essentially all climate scientists agree that the climate crisis is real and caused by human activity.

NASA confirmed that again last week when it released its temperature record for 2021. It showed that Earth in 2021 was roughly 1.1˚C warmer than pre-industrial levels.

2021 was the sixth warmest on record, tied with 2018. This wasn’t a blip. Instead, it showed that the past eight years have been the warmest…