Global warming begets more, extreme warming, a new MIT paleoclimate study finds. Credit: MIT News
Researchers observe a “warming bias” over the past 66 million years that may return if ice sheets disappear.
It is increasingly clear that the prolonged drought conditions, record-breaking heat, sustained wildfires, and frequent, more extreme storms experienced in recent years are a direct result of rising global temperatures brought on by humans’ addition of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. And a new (function(d, s, id){
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