The Manila Times

Science is clear – The world is warming

- LUDWIG O. FEDERIGAN

THOSE of you who were born earlier than me would remember the 1958 science produced by three-time Oscar unwittingl­y changing the world’s climate through the waste products of its civilizati­on. Due to our releases in factories and automobile­s every year of more than six which helps the air absorb heat may be getting warmer.

- - to pop- up when an opinion writer of The Manila Times month. A young atmospheri­c on his letter to the editor en published last August 2.

- tergovernm­ental Panel on Cli to any change in climate over variabilit­y or as a result of human activity.

Climate change isn’t a hoax are the facts:

According to the American Meteorolog­ical Society’s State of year 2017 brought an end to the temperatur­es that were set each year from 2014 to 2016. Depend came in second or third warm The near- record temperatur­es occurred in the absence of El El Niño year.

- - perature has warmed by 1.3–1.6 the rate of warming has nearly doubled since 1975 to 2.7–3.2 -

Seventeen of the 18 warmest years ever recorded in human history happened during this have all occurred since 2014.

by professor Bryan Shuman PhD - vergent Trends and Millennial Variations in Holocene Tempera 2018 in Nature (an internatio­nal - enheit warmer today than it was the decade was at least one-half than the warmest periods of that

Hell in some parts of globe

of the globe.

- Meteorolog­ical Administra­tion in 111 years last August 1 with a temperatur­e of 39.6 degrees the temperatur­e rose to 106 de 12 degrees hotter than average temperatur­es at this time of hottest temperatur­e ever reliably - - rica’s previous highest reliable temperatur­e measuremen­t of - its record for any month. On - high-temperatur­e record of 105

its highest temperatur­e in re midnight combinatio­n of heat and humidity. The western time highest temperatur­e in the country and the world-record temperatur­e for May.

was 43 degrees Celsius at 9:30 in the evening.

Extraordin­arily hot summers have become commonplac­e - ed summer events are part of this broader trend.

Based on the data from Dr. scientist and professor at Co above shows how summer temperatur­es have shifted toward more extreme heat over the past several decades.

Hansen and two colleagues compared actual summer temperatur­es for each decade since - of local summer temperatur­es across the Northern Hemisphere were in what they called range. A third were considered cold; a third were hot.

found that summer temperatur­es have shifted drasticall­y. thirds of values were in the hot were in a new category: extreme most summers are now either hot or extremely hot compared with the mid-20th century.

As the warming planet brings perhaps one of most common phrases nowadays would come from a renowned climate sci a distinguis­hed professor of Atmospheri­c Science of Penn global warming are now playing

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