ESSC director Dr. Michael E. Mann and others have recently published a study in Nature Scientific Reports showing that the recent record-breaking warm temperatures would have been extremely unlikely without human-caused climate change.

 

 

Michael E. Mann
Dept. of Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Stefan Rahmstorf
Earth System Analysis, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany

Byron A. Steinman
Large Lakes Observatory, Dept of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN

Martin Tingley
Insurance Australia Group, Sydney, Australia

Sonya K. Miller
Dept. of Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Article:

Mann, M.E., Rahmstorf, S., Steinman, B.A., Miller, S.K., The Likelihood of Recent Record Warmth, Nature Sci. Rep., 6, 19831, 2016.

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