Date published: 2006/09/27
The BBC says:
The world is the warmest it has been in the last 12,000 years as a result of rapid warming over the past 30 years, a study has suggested.
Nasa climatologists said the Earth had warmed by about 0.2C (0.4F) in each of the last three decades.
Pollution from human activity was pushing the world towards dangerous levels of climate change, they warned.
As a result, plant and animal species were struggling to migrate fast enough to cooler regions, they said.
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The study also showed that the recent warming had brought temperatures within about 1C (2F) of the estimated maximum of the past one million years.
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This study showed that the Western Equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean was as warm, if not warmer, since the end of the last major ice age, approximately 12,000 years ago.
Nothing that new here, but some more quantification.
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