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Global temperature anomalies over 100 years
Global temperature anomalies over 100 years
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The Earth could be 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than the late 1800s in just nine years.

The year 2016 was the hottest on record for the third time in a row.

Antti Lipponen, a climate researcher at the Finish Meteorological Institute collected data on the Earth’s temperature using information gathered by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies’ Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP).

Then, he created a graphic which showed year-on-year temperature abnormalities in different countries.

At first, the graphic is blue and the spikes short, however as the years go by, more and more countries experience hotter-than-normal temperatures.

This is indicated by the longer, red spikes.

The following graphic outlines, in stark clarity, how much temperatures across the world have risen:

Lipponen added July 2017's temperatures afterwards and, in line with the trend he outlined in the graphic, July was the warmest month on record so far.

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