NASA — Our Roman Space Telescope’s Dish is Complete!
This just in: 2022 effectively tied for the fifth warmest year since 1880, when our record starts. Here at NASA, we work with our partners at NOAA to track temperatures across Earth’s entire surface, to keep a global record of how our planet is changing.Overall, Earth is getting hotter.ALTThe warming comes directly from human activities – specifically, the release of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels. We started burning fossil fuels in earnest during the Industrial Revolution. Activities like driving cars and operating factories continue to release greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, where they trap heat in the atmosphere.ALTSo…if we’re causing Earth to warm, why isn’t every year the hottest year on record?As 2022 shows, the current global warming isn’t unifo...