A new State of the Climate report confirmed that 2018 was the fourth warmest year in records dating to the mid-1800s.
A new State of the Climate report confirmed that 2018 was the fourth warmest year in records dating to the mid-1800s.
Last year was the fourth warmest year on record despite La Niña conditions early in the year and the lack of a short-term warming El Niño influence until late in the year. The report found that the major indicators of climate change continued to reflect trends consistent with a warming planet. Several markers such as sea level and greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere once again broke records set just one year prior.
These key findings and others are available from the State of the Climate in 2018 report released online today by the American Meteorological Society (AMS).
The 29th annual issuance of the report, led by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, is based on contributions from more than 470 scientists from nearly 60 countries around the world and reflects tens of thousands of measurements from multiple independent datasets (highlights, full report). It provides a detailed update on global climate indicators, notable weather events, and other data collected by environmental monitoring stations and instruments located on land, water, ice, and in space.
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