With 2024 on track to become the hottest year on record—following another record-breaking year in 2023, NASA has released data visualizations showing just how drastically the planet has warmed in the last 150 years. Temperatures typical of Earth 150 years ago are used for comparison to measure modern global warming. The reference period, 1850–1900, was before most greenhouse gasses associated with global industrialization—which increase the heat present in Earth’s ocean and atmosphere—had been e

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