World Statistics

Temperature Anomaly Trends

  • The average rate of increase since 1981 (0.17°C / 0.31°F) is more than twice as great.

  • The 10 warmest years on record have all occurred since 1998, and 9 of the 10 have occurred since 2005.

  • According to IPCC 2007 report, sea levels will rise by 7-23 inches by the end of this century due to global warming

  • Since 1880, the average temperature has risen by 1.4-Fahrenheit degrees.

  • The last two decades of the 20th century have been hottest in the last 400 years, according to climate studies.

  • The Arctic is one of the worst places to be affected by global warming.

FURTHER READING

Ruedy, R., Sato, M., & Lo, K. (2010). Global surface temperature change. Reviews of Geophysics. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010RG000345

Hansen, James, Sato, M., Ruedy, R., Lo, K., Lea, D. W., & Medina-Elizade, M. (2006). Global temperature change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0606291103

Vermeer, M., & Rahmstorf, S. (2009). Global sea level linked to global temperature. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0907765106