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The globe warms: surface, troposphere, oceans and melting ice.

The surface warms. http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1996/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1996/trend

The troposphere warms. http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/uah/from:1996/plot/uah/from:1996/trend http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/from:1996/plot/rss/from:1996/trend

The oceans warm… http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/3M_HEAT_CONTENT/ ...and rise 3.3 mm per year, up from 0.8 mm per year a century ago. http://sealevel.colorado.edu/content/global-mean-sea-level-time-series-seasonal-signals-removed https://robertscribbler.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/hansen-sea-level-rise.png ...and acidify by 30% since the industrial revolution. http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/What+is+Ocean+Acidification%3F

The earth is losing a trillion tons of ice per year:

159 Gt Antarctic land ice, McMillan el al, GRL (2014), http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014GL060111/abstract 26 Gt Antarctic sea ice, Holland et al, J Climate (2014) , http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00301.1 261 Gt Arctic sea ice, PIOMAS, http://psc.apl.uw.edu/research/projects/arctic-sea-ice-volume-anomaly/ 378 Gt Greenland, Enderlin et al, GRL (2014), http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013GL059010/abstract 259 Gt other land based glaciers, Gardner et al. Science (2013), http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6134/852.abstract = - 1,031 Gt, total

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