Rush Limbaugh and those like him claim that the earth stopped warming in 1998. Wrong!
A new analysis confirms that global warming actually shows no sign of slowing down. That's according to Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, and his colleague Grant Foster.
Focusing on 1979-2010, the pair compared the five most important databases of global temperature: three based on surface weather stations, and two based on satellite measurements of temperatures in the lower troposphere. All of them show warming of 0.014-0.018 °C per year. (source)
The world is getting warmer, and we're largely responsible for it. That's about as certain as anything we get in science. What we should focus on is what we're going to do about it.
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