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Australia's warm-up 'highly unusual,' data shows

Posted by  Futurity to Holy Kaw!

The first large-scale temperature reconstruction for Australasia indicates there are no other warm periods in the last 1,000 years that match the warming since 1950.

“Our study revealed that recent warming in a 1,000 year context is highly unusual and cannot be explained by natural factors alone, suggesting a strong influence of human-caused climate change in the Australasian region,” says lead researcher Joelle Gergis from the University of Melbourne.

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