Study of 11,300 years of weather suggests record warming ahead
Thursday, March 7, 2013 - 16:30
in Earth & Climate
By observing several indirect indicators, researchers looking at weather patterns since the end of the last Ice Age predict that average surface temperatures will be at their highest point in human experience by the end of this century.First the good news: In the last 11,300 years, humans have endured a planet warmer than today's, even as they set about building their earliest civilizations.