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Global warming is happening, but it’s not statistically ‘spiking’, new study finds

Example of GMST time series with spurious fit. Credit: Communications Earth & Environmental (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01711-1 With record heatwaves occurring around the world in recent years, an international research team including statisticians from Lancaster University found that the rate of global warming has increased significantly, or “suddenly”, over the past half-century. We investigated whether Statistically detectable proportion. The new study,…