WASHINGTON — The world’s climate is not only continuing to warm, it’s adding heat-trapping greenhouse gases faster than in the past, researchers said Tuesday.
Indeed, the global temperature has been warmer than the 20th-century average every month for more than 25 years, they said at a teleconference.
“The indicators show, unequivocally, that the world continues to warm,” Thomas Karl, director of the National Climatic Data Center, said in releasing the annual State of the Climate report for 2010. The report, published by the American Meteorological Society, lists 2010 as tied with 2005 for the warmest year on record.
Meanwhile, a separate report from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder said Earth is getting thicker around the middle because of ice loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.
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