Scientists Say Earth Hotter Now Than Most of Past 11,300 Years

Bloomberg: The Earth is warmer now than during 70 to 80 percent of the time stretching back to the last Ice Age, according to researchers from Oregon State and Harvard universities who studied data from more than 73 global sites. The findings also show that temperature-change rates are accelerating, Shaun Marcott, a scientist at Oregon State in Corvallis and one of the paper's authors, said yesterday in an interview. The study was published today by the journal Science. The research is the longest global...

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