Climate Change: See the Dramatic New Data for Yourself [Slide Show]

For those who doubt that the global climate is changing, seven new graphs should put that notion to rest. This morning the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the first public summary of a six-year study called Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. It contains the report’s graphs and explains the data behind them. As a set, the graphs show strong trends over many decades: Average surface temperatures have risen up to 2.5 degrees Celsius in numerous places around the world, global sea level is has risen 20 centimeters, Arctic summer sea ice has shrunk by four million square kilometers, and so on.