Sounds like the planet's overall temperature increased by a whole degree in one year. It may be time to stop trying to stop global warming, and start making plans about what to do about rising seas, receding ice, and the other direct impacts to people's lives.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/un-weather-agency-reports-2015-is-hottest-year-on-record/
(**tag note: merged "global warming" into "climate change")
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/un-weather-agency-reports-2015-is-hottest-year-on-record/
(**tag note: merged "global warming" into "climate change")
Posts from This Journal by “climate change” Tag
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QotD: Faulk on Fires
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QotD: Save the Earth OR ELSE
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QotD: What Dawkins would say to Trump
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Shrinking Glaciers
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QotD: Exxon Knew but Funded Deniers
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