Climatologist Dr James Hansen, and Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, poses for pictures beside a mock grave reading "Climate Change, a Matter Of Life Or Death" during a photocall in Coventry, in central England, on March 19, 2009. Hansen will join campaigners who are expected to take part in a day of action to highlight the danger of climate change. Getty Images logo Getty Images 9 months ago

Climatologist Dr James Hansen, and Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, poses for pictures beside a mock grave reading "Climate Change, a Matter Of Life Or Death" during a photocall in Coventry, in central England, on March 19, 2009. Hansen will join campaigners who are expected to take part in a day of action to highlight the danger of climate change.

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  6. This photo taken on Nov. 5, 2009 released by the Australian Antarctic Division, courtesy of gsfc/NASA, shows a satellite image of iceberg B17B, center, some 19 kilometers (12 miles) long, floating southwest of the West Australian coast, between Australia and Antarctica. Since it was first sighted, it has shrunk from 54 square miles (140 square kilometers) to 44 square miles (115 square kilometers), or around 11 miles (18 kilometers) long and 5 miles (8 kilometers) wide. The iceberg has broken up into hundreds of smaller icebergs, some up to several miles (kilometers) wide, and spread over more than 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) of ocean.
  7. BANNING, CA - DECEMBER 8: Emissions-producing diesel trucks and cars pass non-polluting windmills along the 10 freeway on December 8, 2009 near Banning, California. Sustained global warming shows no sign of letting up according to new analysis by the World Meteorological Organization made public at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Although global temperature fluctuates from year to year, overall the decade of the 2000s is likely the warmest decade in the past 150 years covered by the report. This decade is warmer than the 1990s which were warmer than the 1980s, and so on. The conclusion meshes with independent analysis by the National Climatic Data Center and NASA.
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