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Global warming more moderate than most worst-case models, empirical data suggest

A study based on 1,000 years of temperature records suggests global warming is not progressing as fast as it would under the most severe emissions scenarios outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Natural decade-to-decade variability in surface temperatures can account for some much-discussed recent changes in the rate of warming. Empirical data, rather than climate models, were used to estimate this variability. [Brown et al (2015) Comparing the model-simulated global warming signal to observations using empirical estimates of unforced noise. Nature,

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