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Over the past 30 years, the Earth has seen a rapid warming trend. The Earth is now reaching and passing through the warmest levels seen in the last 12,000 years. The color-coded map shows a progression of changing global surface temperatures from 1880 to 2006, the warmest ranked year on record.
Human activities combined with the additional stress of climate change are expected to significantly impact freshwater ecosystems. To find out more, click a link below.
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Animation of global temperature anomalies from 1880 to 2006 taken as a five-year moving average. Dark blue indicates areas cooler than average. Dark red indicates areas warmer than average. This animation is annotated with the year that ends the five-year time span used in calculating the moving average.
Animation provided by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Data provided by Robert B. Schmunk (NASA/GSFC GISS)
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