Earth’s Average Temperature Lower Now Than It Was 5,000 Years Ago
8th March 2013
That’s the conclusion of a new study, “A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the past 11,300 Years,” being published in the journal Science today. But before drawing in a sigh of relief about the future of global warming, the researchers also point out that the rapid warming over the last century has essentially cancelled out 2,000 years of gradual cooling.
How ’bout that Global Warming, eh?