Ryan Koronowshi reports that the state of the climate is complex enough that it takes 413 scientists from 58 countries half a year to completely summarize a year of data. According to the American Meteorological Society and NOAA State of the Climate in 2014 report, several markers measuring the climatic trends set historical records. This is the 25th year that scientists have provided this report, and it was full of hundreds of pages of detailed atmospheric and oceanic summaries of what is happening to our air, land, and water. The year 2014 was forecast to be a warm year, and it was by all accounts a very warm year, in fact record warm according to four independent observational data sets, the report said. The reason: the radiative forcing by long-lived greenhouse gases continued to increase, owing to rising levels of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and other active trace gases. The experts know that climate change is happening, and why, and provide reports like these every year spelling out the impacts in excruciating detail. The variety of indicators shows us how our climate is changing, not just in temperature but from the depths of the oceans to the outer atmosphere, said Thomas R. Karl, director of the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. For those without the time to peruse nearly 300 pages of scientific summaries, here are seven records that fell in 2014.
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