Seventh consecutive year of steep increases leads to the highest greenhouse gas concentration recorded in 61 years of observations
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Carbon dioxide levels now rising at record speed
CO2 growth rate sets new record in 2015-16. Increase in the past ten years is 100 to 200 times as fast as the increase that ended the last ice age
Earth is hot and getting hotter
Confirmed: 2015 set all-time heat records
The annual State of the Climate report confirms that 2015 surpassed 2014 as the warmest year ever recorded. Greenhouse gases, surface temperatures and global sea levels all passed previous highs.
Science confirms: 2014 was the hottest year on record
Peer-reviewed study of multiple independent datasets shows land and ocean temperature, sea levels and greenhouse gases all set new records
Over 15,000 temperature records broken in warmest U.S. March
U.S. government scientists say that record and near-record breaking temperatures dominated the eastern two-thirds of the nation and contributed to the warmest March on record, a record that dates back to 1895.