Mongabay: Average global temperatures are now higher than any point during the past 4,000 years despite being in the midst of what should be a cooling interval, reports a new study published in the journal Science.
The research - based on ice cores and other data from 73 sites sites around the world - constructs a temperature record for the past 11,300 years. It finds that the current global temperature is warmer than 70 to 80 percent of the era since the dawn of human civilization.
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