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Climate Deniers Can’t Ignore This New Graph

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Sometimes one image says it all. According to Bloomberg Opinion’s Mark Gongloff, climate scientist Zeke Hausfather of Berkeley Earth recently shared a chart that starkly illustrates just how quickly our planet is heating up. His data shows that 78% of Earth’s land has recorded its hottest month on record in the 21st century alone — and 38% of that has occurred just in the 2020s, a decade only halfway complete.

This isn’t a distant warning. It’s happening now. NASA’s global temperature records confirm that surface temperatures have risen roughly 1.3°C above the mid-20th century average, bringing us dangerously close to the 1.5°C limit targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The trend exposes what climate-change deniers have long dismissed: the evidence is overwhelming, and it’s visual.

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The 1930s Dust Bowl years in the U.S. were once among the hottest on record, but scientists emphasize this was a local anomaly — caused by unsustainable farming practices that stripped soil and worsened drought conditions. Once the oceans cooled and farming methods changed, that heat faded. Today, thanks to decades of burning fossil fuels, that heat has returned on a global scale — and this time it’s not going away on its own.

Hausfather’s chart, paired with NASA’s data, debunks one of the central myths peddled by denialists: that Climate change is natural or cyclical. The numbers prove otherwise. We’ve reversed millennia of cooling in less than two centuries, largely due to our dependence on oil, gas, and coal.

If we want a livable future for all animals, humans included, we must take these warnings seriously. Transitioning to renewable energy, supporting plant-based systems, and protecting our shared environment are steps that can still turn the tide. The data doesn’t lie — and neither should we.

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