(Credit: Video screenshot by Michelle Starr/CNET)
When you put all the data together, it becomes pretty hard to deny that global temperatures are slowly but surely rising.
A new video released by NASA shows just over six decades of global temperatures, making it pretty clear that the world is getting warmer. In fact, according to NASA data, 9 of the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since the year 2000 (the other was 1998), with the hottest years being 2010 and 2005.
According to the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which analyzes global surface temperatures, the average temperature for 2013 was 14.6 degrees Celsius (58.28 degrees Fahrenheit), which is 0.6 Celsius degrees higher than the mid-20th-century baseline. The average global temperature has risen 0.8 degrees since 1880.
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