Climate change study forces sceptical scientists to change minds

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Earth's land shown to have warmed by 1.5C over past 250 years, with humans being almost entirely responsible

The Earth's land has warmed by 1.5C over the past 250 years and "humans are almost entirely the cause", according to a scientific study set up to address climate change sceptics' concerns about whether...

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