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Modern European summers are warmest since Roman times, study finds
2016-01-29 06:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Europe has almost certainly experienced warmer summers in the last three decades than at any other time since the Roman empire, according to a study published on Friday in the Environmental Research Letters journal. Since 1986, mean summer temperatures have been about 1.3C hotter than they were two millennia ago, while heatwaves have been longer, more frequent and more persistent, the study says. The paper was compiled by 40 prominent academics, using tree-ring analysis, climate modelling and...
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