Nice video at the link. Worth a look.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130731.html

How has the surface temperature of Earth been changing? To help find out, Earth scientists collected temperature records from over 1000 weather stations around the globe since 1880, and combined them with modern satellite data.

The movie in the link dramatizes the result showing 130 years of planet-wide temperature changes relative to the local average temperatures in the mid-1900s. In the above global maps, red means warmer and blue means colder. On average, the display demonstrates that the temperature on Earth has increased by nearly one degree Celsius over the past 130 years, and many of the warmest years on record have occurred only recently.

Global climate change is of more than passing interest — it is linked to global weather severity and coastal sea water levels.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130731.html

Michael V said:

Nice video at the link. Worth a look.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130731.html

How has the surface temperature of Earth been changing? To help find out, Earth scientists collected temperature records from over 1000 weather stations around the globe since 1880, and combined them with modern satellite data.

The movie in the link dramatizes the result showing 130 years of planet-wide temperature changes relative to the local average temperatures in the mid-1900s. In the above global maps, red means warmer and blue means colder. On average, the display demonstrates that the temperature on Earth has increased by nearly one degree Celsius over the past 130 years, and many of the warmest years on record have occurred only recently.

Global climate change is of more than passing interest — it is linked to global weather severity and coastal sea water levels.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130731.html

Easy to see why the Polar Bear habitat is so endangered compared to the rest of the globe. Russia too is heating mush faster, of which many people there would think it a good thing. However they are also having problems with a beetle larvae boring into and killing their trees, which in colder weather would be controlled over winter, but now survive. You also need consider the vast areas of permafrost that are now beginning to thaw to release even more co2 and methane that will exacerbate the problem and possibly lead to runaway warming, something we do not want to experience.

Put like that, dead scary stuff.

he display demonstrates that the temperature on Earth has increased by nearly one degree Celsius over the past 130 years,
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Does it?

Looked reasonably even to me, maybe a bit warmer.

Remember, the alarming redness of the North is stretching the true picture…

“showing 130 years of planet-wide temperature changes relative to the local average temperatures in the mid-1900s”

I wonder what years were used for the “mid-1900’s local average temperatures”?

Alarming video!