“Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get”
2019: Second warmest year on record 2000 – 2019: Warmest decade on record
Carroll glacier, Alaska 1906 Carroll glacier, Alaska 2003 Pictures courtesy of US Geological Survey
Muir glacier, Alaska 1941 Muir glacier, Alaska 2004 Pictures courtesy of US Geological Survey
2003 heatwave
“The highest effect of the sun’s rays I have found to be in carbonic acid gas. ... An atmosphere of that gas would give to our earth a high temperature; and if, as some suppose, at one period of its history, the air had mixed with it a larger proportion than at present, an increased temperature from its own action, as well as from increased weight, must have necessarily resulted.” Eunice Newton Foote, 1856
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