In recent decades, a number of groups have tried combining sets of these proxy records together to construct long - term estimates
of global temperature change over the last millennium or so.
Makes you feel good when two different datasets agree on the rate
of global temperature increase; I guess there's something to this global warming after all.
However, I recall reading recently — but was unable to find the reference, unfortunately — that it generally takes about 17 years
of global temperature data to reach that 95 % level.
As discussed below, these standards can be complemented by additional actions to further reduce methane emissions, which will help to slow the
rate of global temperature rise in the coming decades.
The new modelling study finds that only high estimates of both aerosol cooling and greenhouse warming can explain the
history of global temperatures over the past 50 years.
How unprecedented those changes were became clear in an earlier 2012 study, the most comprehensive scientific
reconstruction of global temperatures over the past 11,000 years ever made.
The only «tipping point» we need be concerned with is the
level of global temperature at which warming switches to cooling and vice versa.
The
range of global temperature predicted for the period 2016 - 2020 is seen in blue, with the black lines showing observed temperatures and previous predictions in red.
The projected man - made warming over the next 100 years is clearly visible on a
plot of global temperature over the past 100 million years.
Since 1980 there has only been 0.4
°C of global temperature increase, all of which occurred prior to 1997 when global warming officially ended.
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