With El Niño and climate change, this week saw some of the hottest ... - NPR
With El Niño and climate change, this week saw some of the hottest recorded weather : NPR
With El Niño and climate change, this week saw some of the hottest recorded weather
Some of the hottest global weather in recorded history is happening this week. It's likely that record temperatures will continue to occur this year.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.