Earth scorched in the first 3 months of 2020

The American economy has seriously sputtered during the coronavirus pandemic, but the planet's relentless warming trend hasn't. 

After Earth experienced its second-hottest year in 140 years of record-keeping in 2019, the first few months of this year have either broken historic monthly records, or come close. January 2020 was the warmest January on record. February 2020 was the second hottest such month on record. And on Monday, the European Union's climate monitoring agency EU Copernicus reported that March 2020 was "on par" with the second and third warmest Marches on record. 

Earth's warming atmosphere is reacting to a skyrocketing rise of the potent greenhouse gas carbon dioxide — now at its highest levels in at least 800,000 years, but more likely millions of years. This same gas (though much more of it) is responsible for the blistering temperatures on Venus. Read more...

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