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Global warming is not slowing down, say NOAA scientists

JUN 05, 2015
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BBC : New data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration indicate that global temperatures continue to rise, despite evidence to the contrary put forth by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) two years ago. NOAA’s recent global surface-temperature analysis also includes a revision of ocean observations that had been made using various techniques. According to Thomas Karl of NOAA and his colleagues, whose paper appears today in Science, not only are global trends higher than reported by the IPCC but the rate of warming during the first 15 years of the 21st century has been at least as great as that of the last half of the 20th century.

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