Scientists say that the earth appears to be warmer since 1980 than in any other century.
The scientists (professor Philip Jones and Professor Michael Mann) say that their findings seem to support the latest commentaries from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Their study is backed by three main sources of information: trunks of ancient trees from different regions, cores drilled from Antarctica and historical records from countries like The Netherlands, Switzerland and China.
“The climate sceptics are flogging a dead horse. You can’t say the whole world was once warmer than it is now just because Europe was warmer.
You have to aggregate the records together, as we’ve done. We’d like more records, especially from the tropics – but we do think we have enough information to say the world is now warmer than it’s been for 2,000 years.”