If you have a hard time visualizing climate change, here’s how our planet is faring.
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Here are our planet's vitals, according to NASA's recent medical charts.
Global temps have jumped 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the last recorded 134 years. The fluctuating dark blue areas (above) show temps cooler than usual, and the dark red means that spot is warmer than usual.
That may not seem like much, but to put things into perspective: We've had nine of the 10 warmest years on record since 2000, according to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed / NASA Scientific Visualization Studio / NASA/GISS / Via climate.nasa.gov
Sea ice is frozen ocean water. Just two years ago, the sea ice in the Arctic diminished to its lowest level ever, which can disturb wildlife and people who depend on its signals to hunt and travel.
The snow that covers the ice and can help insulate it has also thinned between 30% and 50% in the last half-century, a study published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans this year shows.
Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed / NASA Scientific Visualization Studio / Via climate.nasa.gov
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