A new study has confirmed previous findings that human activity is "the most straightforward explanation" for the rising temperatures on the Earth.
According to the results of the latest research conducted by the Berkeley Earth Project, the average temperature of the Earth's land has risen by 1.5C over the past 250 years.
"Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct. I'm now going a step further: Humans are almost entirely the cause," leader of the study Prof. Richard Muller of the University of California, Berkeley says in a report published in the New York Times.
Muller’s team was composed of ten scientists, including winner of this year's Nobel Physics Prize Saul Perlmutter, the state-funded BBC reported.
Director of the Earth Science System Center at Penn State University Prof. Michael Mann said it was satisfying that the study demonstrates “what scientists have known with some degree of confidence for nearly two decades: that the globe is indeed warming, and that this warming can only be explained by human-caused increases in greenhouse gas concentrations".
Prof. Muller hopes the study helps settle the scientific debate regarding global warming and its human causes.
"These findings are stronger than those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC], the United Nations group that defines the scientific and diplomatic consensus on global warming," he said.
"Then comes the difficult part: agreeing across the political and diplomatic spectrum about what can and should be done."
- Press TV
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