Amelia Urry, associate editor at The Grist, discusses the recent report by NASA which found 2017 was the warmest year on record, second only to 2016. We discuss the finding that the five warmest years ever on Earth have all occurred since 2010. Urry talks about the reasons behind the Earth's warming and what this means for the study of climate science going forward.
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