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the planets average surface temperature has increased about 2 degrees

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Water has a high heat capacity, it absorbs a lot of heat before it gets hot.

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Evidence records of ice sheets shrinking

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Evidence records of ice sheets shrinking

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The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have decreased in mass. Data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment show Greenland lost an average of 279 billion tons of ice per year between 1993 and 2019, while Antarctica lost about 148 billion tons of ice per year.⁷

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since the late 19th century, a change driven largely by increased carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere and other human activities.⁴

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he ocean has absorbed much of this increased heat, with the top 100 meters (about 328 feet) of ocean showing warming of more than 0.6 degrees Fahrenheit (0.33 degrees Celsius) since 1969.⁶

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the earths average temp has risen over 2 degrees

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the earths average temp has risen over 2 degrees

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Glaciers are retreating almost everywhere around the world — including in the Alps, Himalayas, Andes, Rockies, Alaska, and Africa.

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The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have decreased in mass. Data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment show Greenland lost an average of 279 billion tons of ice per year between 1993 and 2019,

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ice sheets have been losing mass since 2002 of 152 million metric tons per year since then in antarctica and greenland.

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Glaciers are retreating almost everywhere around the world — including in the Alps, Himalayas, Andes, Rockies, Alaska, and Africa.⁸

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Satellite observations reveal that the amount of spring snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere has decreased over the past five decades and the snow is melting earlier.⁹

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Global sea level rose about 8 inches (20 centimeters) in the last century. The rate in the last two decades, however, is nearly double that of the last century and accelerating slightly every year.¹⁰

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Both the extent and thickness of Arctic sea ice has declined rapidly over the last several decades.¹¹

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Values fluctuate from year to year, but have continued to decrease over the past four decades. At the current rate of decline, some projections suggest that the Arctic will be virtually ice-free during summers by the middle of this century.

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The ocean has absorbed a lot of the heat

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The number of record high temperature events in the United States has been increasing, while the number of record low temperature events has been decreasing, since 1950. The U.S. has also witnessed increasing numbers of intense rainfall events.¹²

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he planet's average surface temperature has risen about 2 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degrees Celsius) since the late 19th century,

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ocean waters has increased by about 30%.13, ¹⁴ This increase is the result of humans emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and hence more being absorbed into the ocean

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Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the acidity of surface ocean waters has increased by about 30%.13, ¹⁴ This increase is the result of humans emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and hence more being absorbed into the ocean.

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Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the acidity of surface ocean waters has increased by about 30%.13, ¹⁴ This increase is the result of humans emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and hence more being absorbed into the ocean. The ocean has absorbed between 20% and 30% of total anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions in recent decades (7.2 to 10.8 billion metric tons per year)

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since 1969. Earth stores 90% of the extra energy in the ocean.