Last weekend, NASA reported that 2011 was the 9th warmest year on record. This despite a cooling “La Niña influence and low solar activity for the past several years.”
“The average temperature around the globe in 2011 was 0.92 degrees F (0.51 C) warmer than the mid-20th century baseline,” the report states, and NASA makes no bones about why:
The carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere was about 285 parts per million in 1880, when the GISS global temperature record begins. By 1960, the average concentration had risen to about 315 parts per million. Today it exceeds 390 parts per million and continues to rise at an accelerating pace.
This video was put together by rocket scientists, but you don’t need to be one to understand why its critical now to stop carbon dioxide and other emissions before it’s too late.
Heartbreaking.