TORONTO -- Even in the middle of a Canadian winter, it's hard to stop thinking about the heat.
that the modern average global temperature is the warmest it has been in at least the past 10,000 years.
On a more micro level, meanwhile, there are plenty of signs that our planet is only going to keep heating up.
NASA says the just-completed 2020 is in a statistical tie with 2016 for the , with an average global surface temperature more than 1 C above the 1951-1980 average. The seven hottest years on NASA's list are the past seven years.
But that's not all. As Â鶹´«Ã½ Science and Technology Specialist Dan Riskin explains in the video at the top of this page, there's a certain temperature-related phenomenon that used to be common, but has never been experienced by anyone under the age of 32.
