Record warm years almost certainly due to human-made climate change
Monday, January 25, 2016 - 10:40
in Earth & Climate
Recent record warm years are with extremely high likelihood caused by human-made climate change. Without greenhouse-gas emissions from burning coal and oil, the odds are vanishingly small that 13 out of the 15 warmest years ever measured would all have happened in the current, still young century. Including the data for 2015, which came in after the study was completed, makes the odds even slimmer.