Thanks to Atlantic’s coverage on this important topic, we have now this short but not very sweet visual message (click the image above to go to the video):

Whew! We did it! We didn’t have another warmest-year-on-record!

Just kidding. 2012 might not have been the warmest year on record (in fact it was the ninth) but that is no reason not to panic (and, for that matter, it *was* the warmest on record for the continental U.S. by far). The path we’re on may not be perfectly direct, but there’s no question which way we’re heading. All of the 10 warmest years on record have happened in the past decade and a half.

Read the rest of this short item here.