Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds

"Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures. It found global heating accelerated from a steady rate of less than 0.2C per decade between 1970 and 2015 to about 0.35C per decade over the past 10 years."

"If the warming rate of the past 10 years continues, it would lead to a long-term exceedance of the 1.5C (2.7F) limit of the Paris agreement before 2030, said Stefan Rahmstorf, a scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and co-author of the study."

"The researchers applied a noise-reduction method to filter out the estimated effect of nonhuman factors in five major datasets that scientists have compiled to gauge the Earth's temperature. In each of them, they found an acceleration in global heating emerged in 2013 or 2014."

Recent research reveals that planetary heating has accelerated dramatically, with the warming rate nearly doubling from less than 0.2°C per decade between 1970 and 2015 to approximately 0.35°C per decade over the past ten years. This represents the fastest heating rate since systematic temperature measurements began in 1880. Scientists filtered out natural climate factors like solar cycles, volcanic eruptions, and El Niño patterns from five major temperature datasets to isolate human-caused warming. The acceleration became evident around 2013-2014 across all datasets. If current warming rates persist, global temperatures will exceed the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C limit before 2030. The planet has already warmed approximately 1.4°C since preindustrial times, with recent reductions in cooling sulphur pollutants further intensifying warming effects.

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