Koch-Funded Study Finds Recent Global Warming “On the High End” and Speeding Up
A recent Koch-funded study has been released that finds that “global land temperatures have increased by 0.911 ± 0.042 C since the 1950s”. The study reports, “this data is consistent with previous global land-surface warming results, but with reduced uncertainty.”
“The study found that the average land temperature from Jan 1950 to Dec 1959 was 8.849 ± 0.033 C (47.93 degrees Fahrenheit), and that the temperature average during the most recent decade (Jan 2000 to Dec 2009) was 9.760 ± 0.041 C (49.57 degrees Fahrenheit) – an increase of 0.911 ± 0.042 C.”
“The trend line for the 20th century was calculated to be 0.733 ± 0.096C/century, well below the 2.76 ± 0.16 C/century rate of global land-surface warming that was observed during the interval of Jan 1970 to Aug 2011.” (In other words, in the past 40 years, the land has warmed nearly 4 times faster than it did in the last century.)
For the full study visit the Berkeley Earth Temperature Averaging Process study here,
Or Joe Romm’s Think Progress Blog on the Berkeley Study here.
