Congratulations, 2019 was the second hottest year on record

Shocking nobody, 2019 was officially the second warmest year ever recorded. The European Union's earth observing agency, Copernicus, announced the warming record Wednesday morning, along with the fact that December 2019 tied 2015 for the warmest December in recorded history. That means 19 of the last 20 years are now the warmest on record. This makes sense. Earth's atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide — a potent heat-trapping gas — are the highest they've been in at least 800,00 years, but more likely millions of years. The pace at which these CO2 levels are rising are breaking records, too. Paleoclimatologists have found that carbon dioxide concentrations are increasing at rates that are unprecedented in both the historic and geologic record.  Read more...More about Science, Global Warming, Climate Change, Science, and Climate Environment