The current weather pattern shows consistent increase in the global temperature and marks the record temperature increase in last 10 years. In 2019, the earth's surface temperature is 0.95 degree warmer than the 20th century average. This may result to many weather related catastrophes like storms,floods and droughts. These events brings huge economic loss to the country. This statistics represents the global land & ocean temperature anamolies from 1989 to 2019. This is calulated keeping average of 20th century temperature as baseline. Positive anamolies shows that temperature is warmer than baseline while negative indicates the temperature is lower than the baseline. From the line plot, comparing the current temperature, the rate of temperature change is three times warmer than temperature at the end of 1989.
From the previous section results, huge increase in the global temperature is observed. This sudden change in the global warming rate, decreases the level of the artic sea. In September 2020, the Artic sea reached its minimum of 3.74 million square kilometers. This is the second lowest minimum rate recorded. This statistics shows the northern hemisphere (i.e) artic sea extend for the period of 1989 to 2019 in millions square killometers. Arctic ice melting at the rate of 13 percent per decade since 1979.
This statistics shows the southern hemisphere (i.e) antartic sea extend for the period of 1989 to 2019 in millions square killometers. Recent observations from 11 satellite mission monitoring the Greenland and antarctic ice sheets reveals that these regions are losing ice six times faster than they were in 1990's. This may even lead to the an extra 6.7 inches of rise in sea level by 2100. At the northern tip of the continent, ice-shelf collapse at the Antarctic Peninsula has driven an increase of 27.6 billion tons (25 billion metric tons) in ice loss per year since the early 2000s. [1]