Earth Warming Fastest In 1,000 Years
While humans are all staring at their phones, this news arrives: Earth is warming at a pace that is unprecedented for the past 1,000 years, NASA scientists report. It is, experts say, “very unlikely†that the planet can stay within a 1.5 degree Celsius temperature-increase limit agreed by nations just last year. 2016 has seen record temperatures the world over and the warming over decades is perilously out of step with any other time period over the past millennium, officials say.
