Humans Have Caused Global Warming for Longer Than We Thought

Aug 25, 2016, 01:08 PM
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People have been contributing to global warming since the mid-nineteenth century, decades before scientists previously estimated, according to new research published in the journal Nature.

The study questions the perception of climate change as primarily a 20th century phenomenon and provides new evidence of how quickly the Earth's atmosphere responds to increased levels of greenhouse gas emissions.