Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades: Study

The Planet is Heating Faster Than Ever Before

The pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, a new study published today in Geophysical Research Letters has found—meaning that we could breach the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial temperatures before 2030.  Between 1970 and 2015, global mean surface temperature tended to follow a steady trend, rising at an average rate of 0.2°C per decade. But by 2015, that changed—over the past ten years, th…

Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly, New Research Confirms — and the Numbers Are Alarming

The planet isn’t just warming. It’s warming faster. A new peer-reviewed study published on ResearchGate by a team led by James Hansen — the NASA scientist who first brought climate change to congressional attention in 1988 — argues that the rate of global warming has accelerated significantly over the past decade, and that existing climate models have underestimated how quickly Earth’s energy imbalance is growing. The paper, titled “Global Warmi…

The rate of global warming is accelerating, study finds

Earth has been steadily warming since the start of the Industrial Revolution, when humans began emitting greenhouse gases at scale. And while the rate of warming has been largely constant for the past half-century, a recent study finds it has accelerated over the last decade — an alarming trend for Earth systems, biodiversity and human […]