New data raises questions about how much the Earth has warmed
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Planet-warming pollution rates exploded after the end of World War II. James Watt’s steam engine launched the Industrial Revolution in 1769. Before that, for thousands of years, humans were clearing forested land for farming, releasing carbon from trees and plants into the atmosphere.
The severity of global warming has long depended on your frame of reference — on what temperature you think was normal for the Earth before humans began changing it. But what year should mark that moment?
That’s what makes a groundbreaking new temperature dataset released by a group of scientists based in the United Kingdom so striking. The datasets used to diagnose the modern history of the planet’s climate — and to proclaim that the world is now very near to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming — typically begin with the year 1850.
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In the year 1850, human population was around ~1.2 billion. It is now ~8.25 billion. In less than 200 years, it has increased 8-fold.
Obviously this is integral to increased emissions, and all other forms of consumption.
The article does not mention the “Little Ice Age” and so it’s extremely misleading. The way it presents the fact that 1850 had been used as the earliest date, but they knew some warming had occurred before that is almost to the point of being a lie of omission.
“Raises questions” makes it sound like it’s doubting the amount of warming, when it’s actually “it’s even worse than we thought”
The article talks about up to 0.2C extra warming, with 0.1C apparently being most likely.
It is important to science to get the numbers correct, but a 0.2C variation makes no difference for policy. The headline is misinformation.
Good article and interesting study, although the headline’s strained effort to sound neutral also neutralizes the news here.
For that matter, [evidence shows ](https://www.shh.mpg.de/2054753/tropical-rice-agriculture#:~:text=According%20to%20a%20study%20published%20in%20the,diversity%20in%20northern%20tropical%20and%20subtropical%20forests)that human-caused climate warming began with rice agriculture and forest clearing even further into the past.
Not buying the Global Warming BS ….. last week we were 22 degrees BELOW normal …. Had some pretty cold Winters for a Decade …
August is not as Hot as it was 15 years ago …
It’s way overblown …. Now from a Pollution standpoint …. Maybe …
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