Retreating glaciers. Melting permafrost. Off-kilter bird migrations. Few of these reports are news to anyone following the global warming beat. Yet the first effort to gather thousands of scientific findings into a cohesive narrative of cause and effect has been published in the journal Nature.
What record is that you speak of? 8 of the 10 hottest years in Earth's history? That is doubtful. While I'm glad this research is being done, I question the methodology. It looks like only the climatologists are the only group of scientists that can forgo the scientific method. How could you show natural variation couldn't produce the results? Did they take a slice of the earth removed from human influence? Ridiculous...
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