Mark Maslin, “Embracing the Anthropocene: Managing Human Impact” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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How Do We Know if We've Warmed Up the Planet?
The 'hocky stick' is based on temperature records going back thousands of years. It shows a strong warming in the last 100 and 50 years, with a slight hiatus during the forties. And then we have this big tail or big stick at the end, which is where we've actually started to influence a greenhouse gas composition, and therefore increase temperatures markedly.
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