Global Temperatures Continue to Rise

The last two years have been the hottest two years ever recorded, according to scientists at the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA). The hottest year was 2016, followed closely by 2017. In fact, the five hottest years ever recorded going all the way back to 1880 (when it first became possible to measure global temperatures with any accuracy) have all been since 2010.

Climate deniers are beginning to look a bit foolish, don't you think? But they can still argue that we don't really know what is causing global temperatures to rise (translation; there's insufficient evidence that global warming is being caused by human activities), and to use that argument as an excuse for not doing anything about it.

They win that argument at their own peril, in my view. By the time we all agree on what is causing global warming and what should be done to mitigate it, it may be too late - the climate will be changed for perhaps hundreds of years, if not permanently. Humans will have to adapt to very different climate conditions than exist today. Lucky me, I won't live long enough to see it.