20 December, 2018

State of the Climate: Thank goodness for ocean sinks currently holding more warming extremes at bay

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and CSIRO's joint biennial State of the Climate report has just been released and it is not the kind of report card you would want to take home to your parents just before Christmas.
Trends in sea surface temperatures from 1950 to 2017.
An extra two years has firmed-up the data to demonstrate that climate change is happening now.

Dr Helen Cleugh, the director of the climate science centre at CSIRO, said the last time the planet saw levels of CO2 this high was at least 800,000 years ago.


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