Sydne Record and Noah Charney

According to two separate analyses by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the 10 warmest years globally since 1880 occurred within the last 15 years. These reports are part of a body of mounting evidence that the Earth’s climate is changing. Historically, the fossil record shows that global fluctuations in climate coincided with species extinctions or shifts in the geographic ranges of species distributions.

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