New study: global warming keeps on keeping on | John Abraham
by John Abraham from Environment | The Guardian on (#2MGCS)
A new paper finds no statistical evidence that global warming slowed down in recent years or that it's sped up just yet
As humans continue to dump heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the Earth continues to warm. In fact, it has been warming for decades and we now routinely hit temperatures that are 1C (about 2F) above the temperatures from 100 years ago.
But despite what we may expect, temperatures across the globe don't rise little by little each year in a straight line. Rather, temperature changes are a bit bumpy. They go up and they go down somewhat randomly as they increase. Think of a wiggly line superimposed on a straight rising line.