Last year, Greenland broke the record for the most ice lost in a single day...
Australia missed out on 40 per cent of its average rainfall...
And scientists, like Gavin Schmidt from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies says the change is driven by human activity.
((What we find is the greenhouse gases explain the trends very, very well, and in fact the totality of human activities gives us the trends that we see in the real world.))
World temperatures have risen one-point one degrees since records begin in 1850.
Each decade from the 1980s has been warmer than the decade before.
((The trends that we are seeing, that are confirmed by weather forecast, by satellite imagery, by changes in ice and sea level, those trends are ongoing and having impacts right now. ))
The business world overnight acknowledged the challenges of climate change.
The President of the World Economic Forum, Børge Brende [[BOR-gay BREN-duh]] says the top five issues identified in the organisation's 2020 Global Risks Report are environment related.
((The costs of inaction today far exceeds the costs of action))
A study in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences released this week, showed 2019 was also the warmest year for the world's oceans; since 1950 it's found the seas have absorbed more than 90 percent of the excess heat caused by green house gas emissions.
The effect of warming oceans in Australia...
Coral bleaching in the north...
Losses of kelp forests off Tasmania...
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology's Doctor Karl Braganza is also blaming climate change.
((While the natural drivers such as the change in the Indian Ocean would mean a drier and warmer year, when you add climate change on top that's when you break the records the way we've seen))
The warm temperatures are likely to continue.
Meteorologists estimate a 95 per cent chance 2020 will become one of the five hottest years on record.
