Given the number of record-setting heat waves around the world in recent years, an international team of researchers, including a Lancaster University statistician, investigated if the rate of global warming has increased significantly, or "surged," over the last half century at statistically detectable rates.
The new study, published on October 14 in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, and led by scientists at UC Santa Cruz in the U.S., confirms the broad consensus that the planet is getting warmer, but at a statistically steady rate—not at a sufficiently accelerated rate that could be statistically defined as a surge.
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