Climate change is speeding up — the pace nearly doubled in ten years

Nature ^ | 6/3/26 | Alexander Witze

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The rate of global warming has surged since 2015 and is now nearly double what it was in the 1970s, according to a study1 that tackles one of the hottest debates among climate scientists.

Because the past three years have shattered temperature records (see ‘Temperature boost’), researchers have been exploring whether global warming is accelerating, and if so, why. Many scientists agree that the rate at which it is increasing has picked up. This is mainly because of a reduction in air pollution following the introduction of fuel regulations for international shipping (which has resulted in fewer pollutant particles that reflect sunlight into space and seed insulating clouds). In the data, “you can practically see by eye that it has accelerated”, says Stefan Rahmstorf, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.

{Graph with blurb about record recent temperatures}

Rahmstorf and Grant Foster, a statistician in Orono, Maine, say they have the strongest evidence yet that global warming has sped up, to a rate of around 0.35 ºC per decade. That’s faster than some other estimates2. But, the pair say their analysis provides a more accurate picture because of how it accounts for and removes the effects of natural factors, such as weather events and volcanic eruptions, that cause climate fluctuations. The study was published today in Geophysical Research Letters.

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KEYWORDS: climatechange; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; models; nearlydoubled; pacedoubled; tenyears

[gnickgnack2]

BINGO!

[griffin]

The polar ice caps melted 15 years ago in hindsight! uggghhhh!

[skinny old man]

Yo tree huggers,yo fulla chit Mon !

[fireman15]

My first reaction to this headline: there are people on this forum who completely buy into this nonsense; fortunately most of them are smart enough to keep their mouths shut.

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[Rlsau1]

Perspective: If earth’s atmosphere was $10,000.00 then CO2 would be 4 cents.

[Tymesup]

I’m confused. The title says climate change, but the article says global warming. Which is it?