The Graph That Should Be on the Front Page of Every Newspaper: The Unambiguous Warming of the Planet

This graph should be on the front page of every newspaper in the country. It shows, clearly and unambiguously, that the Earth has been heating up over the past 130 years, and especially over the past 30 years. And it is getting worse: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has just announced that the first four months of 2010 were the hottest in the entire 130-year record for the planet.

Climate change deniers have been trying hard to confuse the public and policy makers about climate change. But their claims about climate science and what we see in the world around us are based on ideology and bad science, not reality. The graph here is a reality.

SOURCE: Peter H. Gleick, Co-founder/President, Pacific Institute