Hotter seasons coming earlier, research finds
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 16:35
in Earth & Climate
An analysis of global temperatures between 1850 and 2007 has illuminated some climate change details, showing that winter temperatures have risen more rapidly than summer temperatures and that the seasons are coming nearly two days earlier than they were 50 years ago.Perhaps most worrisome, however, is that none of the dozens of computerized climate models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the globe-spanning collaboration of scientists that analyzes climate change scenarios – had predicted the earlier seasons. read more