WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT

GLOBAL
WARMING
GLOBAL TEMPERATURE
Nine of the

10

warmest years

have occurred since

The year

2015

2000

ranks as the

warmest on record.

CARBON DIOXIDE

SEA LEVEL

Carbon dioxide levels in the

Global average sea level has

air are at their highest in

risen nearly

650 000
,

years.

7 178
100
" (

over the past

mm)

years.

LAND ICE

ARCTIC ICE MINIMUM

Antarctica has been losing

In

about

ice shrank to the lowest

134

billion metric tons

of ice per year since

2002

2012

, Arctic summer sea

extent. The Arctic Ocean is

while the Greenland ice

expected to become

sheet has been losing an

essentially ice free in

estimated

summer before mid-century.

287

billion metric

tons per year.

Ifeltthatwecouldreallyloseit.
Thatwhatwetakeforgrantedmightnot
behereforourchildren.
- Al Gore, "An Inconvenient Truth"

Information provided by:

CLIMATE.NASA.GOV