2012: The Warmest Year on Record in the U.S. (kcet.org)
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| (Courtesy NOAA Climate.gov) |
Another reminder of why getting off fossil fuels is so important: The
American Meteorological Society (AMS) has released an annual report on the world's changing climate, and the news is just about as bad as you might expect. 2012 was one of the ten warmest years on record worldwide, and the warmest year on record in the United States.
The report, published by the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on it's
climate.gov website, has been produced annually for the last 23 years, each year's news seemingly more ominous than the year previous.
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