Bengaluru: A study published in Nature Geoscience Rese¬a¬rchers has revealed that global warming over the 20th century has produ¬ced the hottest global average temperatures in 1,400 years.
Scientists from Austr¬a¬lia have found that the period between 1971 and 2000 was warmer than any other time in nearly 1,400 years.
The first continental-scale reconstruction of temperatures over the past 2,000 years by an international team of scientists has highlighted the unusual nature of the 20th century warming.
Recent warming rever¬sed the long-term cooling that lasted more than a millennium, and during the period 1971-2000, the average temperature was higher than any other time in nearly 1,400 years, scientists said.
Researchers from Indi¬an Institute of Science who are conducting studies on climate change are not surprised.
