The argument over climate change often centers around global warming images. Below are seven times that photos have tried to prove it’s real:
1. Glacier Melt — Arctic Circle
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This image from the International Institute of Climate Change compares the mass of arctic sea ice reduced by half from 1984 to 2012.
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2. Ice Melt — Muir Glacier
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Photos compare the Alaskan glacier from 1882 and 2005, and from 1941 to 2004.
3. Drought — California
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Decreased rainfall and declining winter snowpack in the Sierra Nevadas is leading to California’s most severe drought in decades. In 2013, California received less precipitation than in any other year since 1950, when it became a state.
4. Ice Shelf Calving — Pine Island, Antarctica
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An iceberg estimated to be 22 by 12 miles separated from Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier in November 2013. The iceberg is about 50 percent larger than others in the past.
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5. Ice Melt — Cotopaxi Glacier, Ecuador
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The Cotopaxi Glacier helps provide fresh water and hydroelectric power to Ecuador’s capital city, Quito. These photos show the glacier melting from 1986-2007. The ice mass decreased 38.5 percent from 1976 to 2006.
6. Carbon dioxide pollution
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Images from 2003 and 2007 show carbon dioxide spreading around the globe.
7. Global warming
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Maps of global temperature changes from 1880-1889 and 2000-2009 compare temperatures in each region of the world to what they were from 1951 to 1980. The maps show that the Earth’s average surface temperature rose by 1.3 degrees F since 1880. Two-thirds of the warming took place since 1975.
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