According to Michael Mann, a climatologist at Penn State University, “The impacts of climate change are no longer subtle. They are playing out before us, in real time. The 2015 numbers drive that home.”
The Planet Earth set several records in 2015:
- The Earth experienced its hottest year on record
- Greenhouse gas concentration was the highest on record
- Ocean surface temperatures were the highest on record
- Global sea level rose to a new record high
- More floods and droughts ravaged the planet
- Arctic sea ice continued to disappear
Not to worry though. The Earth doesn’t care. It was OK before humans arrived and will recover and be just fine after we’re gone.
