The planet continued its dramatic warming in 2017, federal scientists reported Thursday, logging one of its hottest years on record even as the warming influence of a recent El Niño ceased. The extraordinary heat dovetailed with a year of climate extremes in which residents in places like California didn’t need data sets to observe the floods and fire that are expected to become only more common as the earth gets hotter.
“We can just look back to the last year” to see the dangers of climate change, said Rachel Licker, senior climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, which advocates for actions to counter global warming. “These kinds of events could increase in frequency and that’s certainly cause for alarm in the West.” NASA reported Thursday that 2017 was the second warmest year in 138 years of record-keeping, following only 2016. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that 2017 was the third warmest year, trailing 2015 and 2016. The discrepancy resulted from using different data sources.
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