There are still a few Cold Earthers out there, insistently pushing narratives that the Earth is cooling, rather than warming. A lengthy annual review conducted by hundreds of scientists from around the world and just published by the American Meteorological Society, however, doesn’t support the Cold Earthers’ contentions. The review concludes that:“Global average surface temperatures during the last three decades have been progressively warmer than all earlier decades, making 2000-09 (the 2000s) the warmest decade in the instrumental record.”
The review examines 10 different indicators of global temperature:
air temperature over land
sea-surface temperature
air temperature over oceans
sea level
ocean heat absorption
humidity
tropospheric temperature
Arctic sea ice
glaciers
spring snow cover in the Northern hemisphere
The review found that all of these 10 independently-measured indicators show that global warming is taking place. Take note, Cold Earthers: This review provides a model of global warming held up at 10 points. If you’re going to knock it down, you’ve got to take out more than just one point.
