Last year was the 45th consecutive year that saw global temperatures rising above the average, meaning that the planet has not had a colder-than-average year since 1976.
Twenty separate billion-dollar disasters occurred in the U.S. in 2021, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The year 2021 was marked not only by extreme weather events nationwide and in the West — it was also the Earth’s sixth hottest year on record, federal officials announced Thursday.
Last year was the 45th consecutive year that saw global temperatures rising above the average, meaning that the planet has not had a colder-than-average year since 1976, according to the report. What’s more, the years 2013 through 2021 all rank among the 10 warmest years since record keeping began in 1880.“The punchline here is, it doesn’t really matter how you do the analysis — they all tell you the earth has warmed quite dramatically over the past century,” he said.
But the region wasn’t alone in its experience, as global warming contributed to significant climate anomalies across the country and the world, including major floods in Germany, sandstorms in Beijing and East Africa’s worst locust plague in decades. While researchers cannot say those incidents were triggered specifically by rising temperatures, they say global warming exerts an influence over many extreme weather events.
Meanwhile, scientists from Europe’s Copernicus observation program ranked 2021 as the globe’s fifth warmest on record. “The last seven years seem kind of anomalous, but we’ve reached a point where the global warming data we’re talking about here is no longer an esoteric or academic measure of what’s going on, but it’s being reflected in the weather and the events that we’re seeing,” he said.
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