2,000 years of records show it's getting hotter, faster

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The clearest picture yet of the past 2,000 years of global temperatures has shown warming in the last 50-odd years is unprecedented in the last two millennia

New reconstructions of Earth's temperature over the past 2,000 years, published yesterday in Nature Geoscience, highlight the astonishing rate of the recent widespread warming of our planet. We also...

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