Temperature Anomaly Trends
The average rate of increase since 1981 (0.17°C / 0.31°F) is more than twice as great.
The 10 warmest years on record have all occurred since 1998, and 9 of the 10 have occurred since 2005.
According to IPCC 2007 report, sea levels will rise by 7-23 inches by the end of this century due to global warming
Since 1880, the average temperature has risen by 1.4-Fahrenheit degrees.
The last two decades of the 20th century have been hottest in the last 400 years, according to climate studies.
The Arctic is one of the worst places to be affected by global warming.
FURTHER READING
Ruedy, R., Sato, M., & Lo, K. (2010). Global surface temperature change. Reviews of Geophysics. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010RG000345
Hansen, James, Sato, M., Ruedy, R., Lo, K., Lea, D. W., & Medina-Elizade, M. (2006). Global temperature change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0606291103
Vermeer, M., & Rahmstorf, S. (2009). Global sea level linked to global temperature. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0907765106