Historical records miss a fifth of global warming: NASA
Friday, July 22, 2016 - 04:51
in Earth & Climate
A new NASA-led study finds that almost one-fifth of the global warming that has occurred in the past 150 years has been missed by historical records due to quirks in how global temperatures were recorded. The study explains why projections of future climate based solely on historical records estimate lower rates of warming than predictions from climate models.