A gigantic rise in global temperatures spells uncertainty for scientists

Changes in average global temperature from one year to another tend to be quite small. This one is gigantic.

The worrisome part of the current warming is not just that it has given us the hottest year on record. It’s the scale of the rise in temperature this year, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of sippakorn/Pixabay

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

March 27, 2024

LONDON, U.K.—It was bound to happen some time, and the time could well be now. We know that when there was strong warming on our planet (like at the end of the last Ice Age around 11,000 years ago), there were sudden big leaps in the global temperature. It wasn’t a smoot...

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