“Every disaster movie starts with the government ignoring a scientist.”

With climate change, the government is ignoring thousands of them, and this time it is not a movie!

NASA scientists say 2013 tied with 2009 and 2006 for the seventh warmest year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures.

With the exception of 1998, the 10 warmest years in the 134-year record have all occurred since 2000, with 2010 and 2005 ranking as the warmest years on record

NASA scientists say 2013 tied with 2009 and 2006 for the seventh warmest year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures.

With the exception of 1998, the 10 warmest years in the 134-year record have all occurred since 2000, with 2010 and 2005 ranking as the warmest years on record.
Global temperatures have risen from 1950 through the end of 2013. Reds and yellows show warmer than average temperatures. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

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